DOD to Announce First Cyberspace Strategy

From the Department of Defense:

No. 063-11
July 12, 2011

DOD to Announce First Cyberspace Strategy

Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III will announce the Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace (DSOC) on Thursday July 14 at 1 p.m. EDT at the National Defense University, Marshall Hall, (Building 62, Room 155), Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.

He will be joined by Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A media availability will immediately follow the DSOC announcement.

Journalists wishing to attend this event should contact Dave Thomas by e-mail at thomasd2@ndu.edu or 202-685-3140.

Media must arrive between 11 a.m. and noon to have sufficient time to set up. Proof of affiliation and drivers license are also required for gate access. Those driving should enter the gate on 2nd Street S.W. to allow time for a vehicle security search. Pedestrians should enter at 4th and P Street S.W.

http://www.defense.gov/advisories/advisory.aspx?advisoryid=3367

UPDATE:

Portions of the strategy were leaked in late May.  On May, 31, 2011, the Wall Street Journal ran an article entitled Cyber Combat: Act of War, Pentagon Sets Stage for U.S. to Respond to Computer Sabotage With Military Force, stating:

By SIOBHAN GORMAN And JULIAN E. BARNES

WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.

The Pentagon’s first formal cyber strategy, unclassified portions of which are expected to become public next month, represents an early attempt to grapple with a changing world in which a hacker could pose as significant a threat to U.S. nuclear reactors, subways or pipelines as a hostile country’s military.

In part, the Pentagon intends its plan as a warning to potential adversaries of the consequences of attacking the U.S. in this way. "If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks," said a military official.

You can fine the entire article at:  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304563104576355623135782718.html#ixzz1S1cg3mtj