cyber counterintelligence

cyber counterintelligence

Measures to identify, penetrate, or neutralize foreignoperations that use cyber means as the primary tradecraft methodology, as well as foreign intelligence service collectionefforts that use traditional methods to gauge cyber capabilities and intentions. See also counterintelligence.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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The CounterCraft Cyber Deception Platform represents a radical approach to using deception as cyber counterintelligence. This highly innovative solution challenges traditional network security by allowing attackers to access simulated data in a controlled environment, continuously developed to harness the innovation exhibited by cybercriminals, and used it to better understand their minds and their motives.
From now, the entire domain of cyber counterintelligence will be transferred to the IDF telecommunications division, while all cyber intelligence gathering will remain the responsibility of Army Intelligence.
The Defense Cyber Crime Center delivers superior digital forensics and multimedia laboratory services, cyber technical training, research, development, testing and evaluation, and cyber analysis capabilities supporting cyber counterintelligence and counterterrorism, criminal investigations, intrusion forensics, law enforcement, the Intelligence Community, critical infrastructure partners, and information operations for DOD.
Early chapters describe the state of advanced cyber threats, define deception and how deception is used in countering cyber threats, and outline fundamental competencies of cyber counterintelligence. Later chapters are devoted to host-based and network-based tools, deception technologies, and methods for assessing the network's security.