Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter unveiled the Pentagon’s new cybersecurity strategy at Stanford University in a speech entitled “Rewiring the Pentagon: Charting a New Path on Innovation and Cybersecurity.”
According to the Associated Press, the strategy is the first document in which the United States has publicly said that the U.S. military intends to use cyberwarfare as an option in potential conflicts. Thefirst cyberstrategy document, released in 2011, focused heavily on defense. However, the 2015 version clearly states that the United States “should be able to use cyber operations to disrupt an adversary’s command and control networks, military-related critical infrastructure and weapons capabilities.”
