WASHINGTON DC – Defense Secretary Ash Carter Thursday unveiled the Defense Department’s second cyber strategy to guide the development of DoD’s cyber forces and to strengthen its cyber defenses and its posture on cyber deterrence.
Carter discussed the new strategy – an update to the original strategy released in 2011 – before an audience at Stanford University on the first day of a two-day trip to Silicon Valley in California.
At Stanford, he delivered the annual Drell Lecture, and afterward he was scheduled to visit the Facebook campus in Menlo Park. Tomorrow, the secretary will meet with executives at the $4 billon venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
A Complex Challenge
“While we in DoD are an attractive target, the cyber threat is one we all face as institutions and as individuals,” Carter said at Stanford.
In response to one of the world’s most complex challenges, the Defense Department has three missions in the cyber domain, he added.
The first is to defend DoD networks, systems and information. The second is to defend the U.S. homeland and U.S. national interests against cyberattacks of significant consequence, and The third is to provide integrated cyber capabilities to support military operations and contingency plans.
“In some ways, what we’re doing about this threat is similar to what we do about more conventional threats,” Carter said.
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