Cyber Round Up: Army Possible Cyber Branch; NATO Recognizes Military Response to Cyber Attack; Pay Scale for Federal Cyber Pros; Removing Limits to Cyber Education; Grassley Comments at National Cyber Seminar; Home Depot Cyber Breach; Senator Feinstein’s Cyber Security Bill

•The Army News Service released a report on Wednesday that the army activated a Cyber Protection Brigade, the first of its kind in the Army, and a discussion of a new cyber branch is in the works.
• Should the feds create a job category and salary scale for government cybersecurity workers — or is the profession too mercurial to assign pay grades? NextGov reports on the potential pros and cons of a pay scale for federal cyber professionals.
• Conventional warfare vs. cyberwar policy. Cyber offense police vs. cyber defense. Vertical-technical approaches to cyber studies vs. horizontal-strategic approaches. W. Hord Tipton, writing for Information Week Government, would urge us to remove the limits to one approach vs. another and instead look to broadening cyber education to produce a well-rounded cyber workforce. Read his commentary here.
• Reuters reports that NATO leaders marked an expansion of the organization’s original interpretation of an attack when they agreed on Friday that a large-scale cyber attach on a member country could be considered an attack on the entire U.S.-led alliance.
• Politicalnews.me has published the statement of U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa at the National Cyber Security Alliance Seminar, here. In his statement, Senator Grassley discusses some of the areas of Cyber Security that the U.S. Senate have been focused on, including in particular the federal government’s partnerships with private business to protect critical infrastructure.
• Could the Home Depot credit card breach prove to be larger than the Target breach? Forbes reports on similar breaches in this comparison story, here.
• According to CBS Local, Senator Dianne Feinstein is urging Silicon Valley leaders to call their congressional representatives to express their support for her cyber-security bill which provides legal authority for companies to share cyber-related information with the government.  Read the story here.