Cyber Defence
Photoxpress Today’s defence budgets are tighter than at any time in recent history. But despite severe budget constraints, military demands for highly dynamic and federated missions are still increasing especially towards CIS. To meet these challenges, organisations are more and more moving away from an expensive device-centric view of CIS towards a more efficient application-, information- and people-centric view.
However, this new approach raises some concerns. The re-perimeterisation and the erosion of trust boundaries, already happening in enterprises, is amplified and accelerated by this approach called in the civilian environment Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing presents different risks and additional requirements to an organisation compared to traditional CIS solutions. Especially the moving sensitive data and applications to an emerging infrastructure are increasing the cyber threat, particularly for the military.
For the military world, these developments are alike now and will be in the future the major challenge. The information exchange requirements – considering EU missions – are growing and are getting more complex. In addition, security mechanisms and processes often hamper the mission to keep pace with the environmental conditions. Methods like reach back or home base clarify, that also the military perimeter has changed and modern CIS are best practice for cloud computing.
Concluding: the overall aim is to develop the capabilities for secure collaboration in the Military Cloud and to make best use of Cloud Technologies for own collaboration taking the increasing cyber threat into account.
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