Cyber News

  • Are you ready for TRICARE Open Season? Don’t forget to update DEERS

    We’re less than a month away from TRICARE Open Season. That means it’s time to start thinking about your and your family’s health care needs for next year. Are you planning to make changes to your TRICARE plan? Will you be enrolling in a new plan for the first time or staying in the plan you already

  • Let yourself get help

    It was only eight years ago, but I feel like there is so much more awareness of mental health now than there was then. I didn’t understand that anxiety or depression or any other mental struggle isn’t something that you can just turn off. Most people cannot will their anguish away. That’s what

  • Did you know? Knowledge key in cybersecurity

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – What’s a great and free way to protect your devices? Knowledge.Staying informed and practicing good cyber hygiene is the easiest way to ensure you do not become a victim of or easy target for cybercriminals.Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a great way to gain

  • Mission Defense Team Training Gap Analysis

    With the rapid advancement of technology, Air Force missions are becoming increasingly dependent on cyberspace. These dependencies on networks and computers open up new attack vectors that adversaries can exploit to put our missions at risk. Aware of this threat, US Cyber Command created defensive

  • Nominate employers for ESGR Awards

    The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve is taking nominations for the Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award until Dec. 31.“The ESGR is a Department of Defense program that was established to promote cooperation and understanding between Reserve component service members and their

  • DOD Analysis Highlights Geostrategic Risks of Climate Change

    The Defense Department released an unclassified version of the Defense Climate Risk Analysis report, which provides a starting point for a shared understanding of the strategic and mission risks of climate change and lays out a path forward.

  • How to identify and protect yourself from stalkerware

    October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so we wanted to take the opportunity to highlight a threat that has become alarmingly prevalent. The U.S. has the fourth highest proportion of individuals potentially affected by stalkerware worldwide. Despite this, 57% of adults in the U.S. are not aware of

  • Defense Secretary Holds Talks in Romania

    Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke with leaders in stalwart NATO ally Romania and then visited the U.S. forces who work day in and day out to make NATO a reality.

  • LEAP Spotlight: LEAP to Space Force with SMSgt. Adrian Gaxiola

    “LEAP gave me skills and experiences I would have never gained within my AFSC. It also allowed me to serve in a PME role while being an intelligence professional. Currently, my role is to teach NCOA to Airmen and Guardians while helping the USSF stand up its first Enlisted PME Center. In the future,

  • Multi-Domain Warfare students observe real-time CSpOC C2 operations

    The Multi-Domain Warfare Officer Initial Skills Training class 21B visited the U.S. Space Command’s Combined Force Space Component Command at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, to observe real-time operations, Sept. 20-21. The Operations Center training is part of the 705th Training Squadron,

  • Mission Defense Team amps training capabilities

    Thanks to AFWERX squadron innovation funds, the 910th Communications Squadron’s Mission Defense Team was able to build its own replica cyber vulnerability and hunt-kit for training.