The range of challenges in urban environments is broad. The enemy defender generally has the advantage. To take back the initiative, the Army should deploy current drone technologies to empower soldiers to address some of the fundamental challenges of urban warfare.
Change is not easy and what the Army has been undertaking with its network strategy can best be described as a paradigm shift. However, wideband technology is a game changer and we should sprint forward to put this capability in the hands of the war fighter. So how and why aren’t we closer to success?
Some believe that AI efforts must be accelerated given that the demand for cybersecurity professionals is far outpacing the supply — and that shortfall is projected to get worse.
The sale of sensitive information collected during cyber espionage campaigns appears to be in high demand. So are concerns that a hybrid model of cyber extortion and espionage is evolving.
Never before has cybersecurity received such broad attention and been so widely discussed. All of that is a good thing. However, it is clear there are many questions remaining.
Many feel we are not able to fully track dark social traffic. Could it or has it become a major source of communications among covert operatives, terrorists, activists and criminals?
Many cybersecurity practitioners are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting for the results of the investigation directed by the White House into the hacking events that surrounded the 2016 presidential election.
Today, leveraging the anonymity that accompanies a well-thought-out cyber plot and executed cyberattack with a secure funding mechanism (cryptocurrencies) that can purchase or fund these attacks create a very challenging and troubling future.