The US Air Force has established a new task force designed to better understand and address cyber threats.
Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Walsh III signed a memorandum that established the Task Force Cyber Secure to “address challenges of the cyber space domain in synchronization, operations and governance within the Air Force and with those organizations it supports,” according to an Air Force release.
The three main areas the task force will focus on, as outlined by Lt. Gen. Bill Bender, Secretary of the Air Force chief of information dominance and chief information officer, are: diagnosis of the extent of the cyber threat and vulnerabilities that impact core missions; making plans for risk management development to enable aircraft to fly and win in cyber-contested domains and’ making recommendations for investment priorities on how to address cyber security challenges.
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