New law grants Pentagon broad powers to counter cyberattacks, protect critical infrastructure

By Rick Weber / August 17, 2018 at 10:23 AM
The recently enacted annual defense authorization measure gives the Defense Department broad authority to take a more active role in defending privately owned critical infrastructure, deterring and "defeating" cyber aggression from foreign adversaries -- specifically Russia, China, North Korea and Iran -- and securing industrial operations relied on by the military. DOD and the government "should employ all instruments of national power, including the use of offensive cyber capabilities, to deter if possible, and respond to when necessary, all cyberattacks...

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