Cyber News

  • 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.

  • Be a changemaker through the Combined Federal Campaign 2021

    You can be the face of change through the combined federal campaign program that begins Oct. 25 and runs through Jan. 14, 2022. The CFC is the official workplace giving campaign for all people associated with the military, and has been for the past 60 years.

  • DAFIA leveraging artificial intelligence to transform inspections

    The Department of the Air Force Inspection Agency at Kirtland AFB, N.M., is using artificial intelligence, in the form of machine learning, to identify emerging issues of concern to Airmen and enable the Air Force to isolate, respond to, and resolve them as early as possible.

  • AUSA emphasizes importance of national resilience

    The definition of the word resilience is “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.” As a nation, it is imperative that we are resilient, especially in the face of pandemics, natural disasters, and other crises that can strike suddenly and leave a large impact. National resilience is also