US Cyber Command is using unclassified networks to fight election interference

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https://www.c4isrnet.com/cyber/2020/08/10/us-cyber-command-is-using-unclassified-networks-to-fight-election-interference/

By Mark Pomerleau
C4ISRNET.com
08/10/2020

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Cyber Command is using unclassified networks and 
publicly available communication platforms as it works to prevent foreign 
interference in the next presidential election, a CYBERCOM official has 
revealed.

“From a CYBERCOM standpoint, one of the big changes for us is we 
historically had been focused working inside [sensitive compartmented 
information facilities] SCIFs. One of the things we’ve done in support of 
2020 is we have organizations now that live outside SCIFs,” Brig. Gen. 
William Hartman, the head of of U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber National 
Mission Force, said during an Aug. 7 virtual panel hosted by DEFCON.

Hartman said forces are now working on unclassified networks, Slack 
channels and other platforms to communicate with the FBI, the Department 
of Homeland Security and private industry.

“We have really tried to adapt some of our behavior so we’re able to, in 
real time, collaborate with our partners across government on a little 
different timescale than a traditional military one because I know most of 
you are probably not up at 5:30 in the morning,” he said.

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