Three years after coming into existence, the cyber defense arm of U.S. Cyber Command says it will reach phase one of an order aimed at shoring up vulnerabilities across the Defense Department this spring.
The departmentwide cybersecurity order, known as Operation Gladiator Shield (OGS 17), marks a major milestone for the Joint Force Headquarters-Defense Department Information Networks (JFHQ-DoDIN), which will reach full operational capability (FOC) this month.
While most of the orders from JFHQ-DoDIN are classified, since they identify specific vulnerabilities, Operation Gladiator Shield called on the services and agencies to scour their infrastructure for gaps in cyber defense.
“It involves understanding your terrain, understanding your networks and understanding how you’re defending those networks — is there any gap in defending, any terrain that’s not covered, that’s not protected,” Rear Adm. Kathleen Creighton, the deputy commander of FHQ-DoDIN, told Federal News Radio Thursday at an AFCEA-DC luncheon in Arlington, Virginia. “Then the goal is to roll all of that up for the entire DoDIN to understand the overall risk.”
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