Could the Cloud Become America’s Greatest Defense in Cyber War?
The US Department of Defense announced that it will be investing $23 billion to upgrade its cyber defense in the next four years, which will include a “secure 4G wireless network that will get iPads, iPhones and Android devices online by mid-2014.”
The announcement was made by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey after stating that the cyber attacks on the US’ critical infrastructure has increased 17-fold since his appointment in 2011. Dempsey also stated that the Department would be “consolidating” all 15,000 of its networks into a cloud-based enterprise platform. This could be related to the recent announcement made by the Defense Information Systems Agency seeking a contractor that would build a infrastructure for the entire DoD in a project worth $450 million.
The question now is, will a unified cloud system be the security the US needs to fend off cyber criminals?
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Joining Kristin Feledy in this morning’s NewsDesk is SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto to deliver his Breaking Analysis on the matter.
“I think there’s quite a bit of compelling information that would indicate that. There are so many networks out there under the DoD umbrella alone, all over the place, they’ve been actually working on consolidating a lot of these for some time now,” Casaretto states. “That consolidation gives them the ability, when they launch it and put it in a cloud base enterprise platform, to create a more uniform management platform.
“They can have better control of information that come from the environment. It’s really a goal of any enterprise would consider for better management over all. On the point that it’s a cloud platform and it’s cloud-based, it really just means that they’re going see the benefits, all the flexibility, all the scalability, all the cloud features, the infrastructure-on-demand and so on, that you can imagine. These things benefit any organization looking towards cloud solution. The point is, is that they’re gonna build it with all the security in place, and all the controls in place, all the management, all the information in place that they’re gonna require when they build this thing ahead of time,” Casaretto stated.
He also believes that these measures could prevent the repeat of recent cyber attacks launched against the US.
For more of Casaretto’s Breaking Analysis, check out the NewsDesk video below.
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