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Performing five tasks is essential to information advantage.

Uncle Sam wants you—especially unicorns, leprechauns or something in between. As the U.S. Defense Department revamps the way it protects its critical infrastructures and networks from emerging cyberthreats, military leaders want to reshape their work force and attract to their ranks highly specialized experts, including coveted data scientists.

Individual measures help, but a coordinated effort across the spectrum of activity is necessary.

November marks the Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience month. The strongest assembled securities available today can't fully safeguard the nation's critical infrastructure assets. But the good news is that these vulnerabilities are front and center on official radars and primed for increased attention. 

With so much cybersecurity focus concentrated on firewalls, intrusion detection systems, Web proxies and other protective measures, Domain Name System, or DNS, attacks have risen as a threat du jour compromising organizations’ networks.

The agency plans to leverage performance data to improve user experience.

The Defense Department's continued collaboration to streamline the whole of the military's information technology networks and systems, known as the Joint Information Environment, tops leaders' agendas and fiscal spending plans—now available with a caveat for decision makers, officials said: lessons learned. 

The DIA’s chief information security officer is working to meet demand amid a technological revolution.

A broad approach to recruitment keeps the agency well-equipped for the future.