Cyber Resilience as a Deterrence

Description

Defense agencies face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats across all domains, making cyber resilience essential for deterrence and mission assurance. This session will explore how cyber resilience, defined as anticipating, withstanding, and recovering from the inevitable cyber events, ensures operational advantage without physical force across all domains. 

Central to this is data centricity - treating data as the most critical asset and ensuring its protection, governance, and availability at all times. This means focusing on protecting the data itself through classification, encryption, strict access controls, and continuous monitoring. Combined with proactive data security and Zero Trust, this approach ensures critical systems and information remain secure and available, denying adversaries the chance to disrupt operations or degrade command and control.

Session Learning Objectives:

• Understand how cyber resilience supports deterrence and mission assurance by anticipating, withstanding and recovering from cyber events.
• Apply data-centric practices, such as classification, encryption, and monitoring, to protect critical federal systems and ensure data integrity.
• Evaluate how Zero Trust and data protection strategies align with federal cybersecurity frameworks to maintain operational continuity.

Tracks:

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  Continuing Education
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  Data
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  Zero Trust