The US Army's Cyber Protection Team participates in Joint Users Interoperability Communications Exercise at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
Soldiers, of the 101st Cyber Protection Team, participate in the Joint Users Interoperability Communications Exercise at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.|Photo by David Vergun
A team of cyber protection, or CPT, the newly formed Army of Cyber Protection Brigade at Fort Gordon, Ga., Tested capacity to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland this month against the real intruder is determined to take down their networks.
"We validate our tactics, techniques and procedures on the network, view live traffic" around the world, said Maj. Michael Stokes, commander of the detachment protection Cyber-101 team.
Stokes and 15 other team members participate in joint interoperability exercises communication users, or juice, Aberdeen, June 1 to 27 In addition to validate tactics, techniques and procedures, or TTPs, JUICE is a test network crosstalk between the Guard and other services, federal agencies and NATO, including the countries of the former Warsaw Pact.
In actual operation, J-6, which means the virtual commune level would have overall control, each CPT report to the Joint Cyber Unit for operational tasks. The only difference here at JUS, is that the Joint Coordination Centre Netops or JNCC, will carry out the traditional functions of J-6.
Another benefit of the sport, Stokes said, is that the test environment rich with new tools and innovative that will inform future purchase equipment using virtual defenders with their mission packages that deploy in support of combatant commanders and protect the homeland, he said.
In addition, working with the virtual defenders from outside the army allows soldiers to share useful method to others. These ideas, with "tool method" will be used to inform key leaders, he said.
IMPORTANCE OF CYBER
With so many functions of the equipment and the control network-related military missions complete the network is a priority for those who would do America harm, said Stokes. A cyber attack "is an excellent tool for asymmetric enemy can not we face the direct kinetic fight."
Secretary of the Army recognizes the importance of creating a Directorate Cyber cyber 17 September. Number 17 is important because it falls in the lowest number of branches of combat maneuvers such as 11 infantry, armor becomes 13 and so on, with the support functions including a higher number of branches, such as logistics to 74, he said.
"As we continue to build a virtual team of army protection, we must cognitive fact that the days are gone when we operated with the belief that we have a complete superiority in the field of cyber" said Brig. Gen. John W. Baker, commander of the 7th Signal Command (Theater), at a ceremony when the brigade published in September. "Increasingly, we must be prepared to defeat opponents more sophisticated relentless in their desire to disrupt or deny our advantage in cyberspace."
ROOM ON THE TEAM
Even if the soldiers pulled down in most specialties of military occupation, or foam, all the components of the virtual employ soldiers, said Stokes. It is the growth of the MOS for the soldiers and civilians of the military.
In addition to special compensation services for those who have experience and important role in the mission, the Army invests heavily in further education and additional opportunity to train with the industry, he said.
Soldiers received so much training and experience to try to industry, and sometimes succeeded in attracting them away, he said.
"You will not be able to do it, as we do in other places," said Stokes. "Civil Society do a lot of things like that [cyber security], but the intensity of what we do is much greater. We are probably the most-attacked networks in the world. You will surely make a difference and get a chance to learn."
Daniel Hankins, civilian and military members of CPT Stokes, says he loves his job as a specialist invention, against infiltration. It begins in the 7th Signal Command in 2004 and left the ship for several years worked in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention as a forensic analyst.
When the brigade was formed in September, Hankins said, jumping at the chance to return to the Army team lost so much, the intensity of the Stokes explained.
TTP collaborate and learn new every day while struggling against an adaptive enemy who constantly finding new ways to attack the network attractive and an interesting challenge, he said.
Staff Sgt. Mitchell Pieratt, interactive operator, joined the CPT last year. He spent his first 10 years in the army as a doctor, draw two deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Around 2007, she said she began to read how military networks are attacked. He realized that it would be the rapidly expanding field of cyber career he wants to be part of one day.
Pieratt admitted he did not have information technology training, but he asked anyway. Army establishes that he has the necessary ability to learn and a good record as a soldier ", so they trained me."
It is "an extraordinary MOS," he said. Soldiers in "stagnation or reduction of manpower MOS should consider this."
Pieratt revealed that the training and experience has resulted in the industry offers to lure. He said he thought he would stay in the army, although some offer a tempting and he kept his options open.
