The Pentagon will spend $ 2,4 billion to prepare for the cyber-wars of the future

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The US Army yesterday signed a long-term contract with 14 IT companies at once for the provision of services in the interests of the National Cybersecurity Center. The aforementioned firms, which include giants such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing, will compete for orders from the Pentagon.

The agreement provides for the allocation of $ 2,4 billion for a period until 2031. It is reported that the command of the US Armed Forces has already received 29 applications from participants in a long-term contract.



Under the agreement, the companies will provide support to the US Cyber ​​Command, ensure the security of military facilities from network threats, manage information technology, and participate in the modernization of the National Cyber ​​Range. The latter is a DARPA project, which is a kind of testing ground in the information space, where the US military can test new technologies designed to protect against hacker attacks and cyber terrorism.

It is worth noting that the United States has taken seriously the preparation for the cyber wars of the future. Just yesterday, President Joe Biden signed a memorandum on national security and improving the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure control systems. The latter provides for the possibility of cooperation between the authorities and private companies in this area.

In addition, the American leader previously stated that if a full-fledged war breaks out between two major powers in the modern world, it will most likely become the result of a cyberattack.
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  1. +2
    29 July 2021 14: 09
    - immediately with 14 IT companies
    "Ours" are definitely in some of them.
    1. +6
      29 July 2021 14: 15
      The US has actually begun preparations for future cyber wars. the command of the American Air Force announced a tender for the purchase of a number of malicious programs with the aim of disrupting or destroying computer networks and control centers of a potential adversary. In Russia, they called these plans "the first round of the cyber weapons race."
      1. +6
        29 July 2021 14: 17
        The tender said the US Air Force wants to be able to “destroy, weaken, disrupt, mislead, distort and take over” the enemy's computer networks and control centers. The document, in particular, refers to "disabling, including through DDoS attacks, infecting and hacking of operating systems, servers and other network devices of the enemy", as well as "establishing temporary control over cyberspace." Allows the United States to use cyber weapons in conventional hostilities
      2. 0
        29 July 2021 20: 36
        Quote: Atlant-1164
        In Russia, they called these plans "the first round of the cyber weapons race."

        The race is possible only among equal participants.
    2. +3
      29 July 2021 14: 16
      Invest these money in your six Ukraine, there are at least 30 million zombies, just point your finger at someone to throw yourself at! laughing
    3. 0
      29 July 2021 14: 17
      Yeah. And yesterday Biden said that World War III could start from cyberspace. It turns out he also planned 3 lard for these purposes. Themselves are scorched.
    4. 0
      29 July 2021 18: 11
      Cybersecurity will be ensured in the following way)
      Each foreign base will be staffed with its own CS.GO team, and before going on leave, the military will train in GTA and Carmageddon)))
  2. +2
    29 July 2021 14: 12
    The Pentagon will spend $ 2,4 billion to prepare for the cyber-wars of the future
    belay Anti-fogging pads with air conditioners? feel Baby powders will be cheaper. But the technology remained in the 50s ... request
  3. +2
    29 July 2021 14: 19
    The Pentagon will spend $ 2,4 billion to prepare for the cyber-wars of the future
    ... So what? Do you think the rest will sit and wait for the cyber-kyrdets to come to them?
    Not everyone can afford such sums, costs, but against any wisdom it is good, effective, an ax and a crowbar work, CHECKED!
    Oh yes, there is also an elementary switch, a tap, an arrow, a barrier that must be manually turned on / off, closed.
    1. 0
      31 July 2021 11: 46
      What is such a switch ??? A normally assembled ordinary server rack wanted to spit on your switch for at least 3 hours! What are you talking about?
      I am silent about data centers. But seriously, we still have to work and work in the direction of network security.
      Sincerely
      1. 0
        31 July 2021 12: 43
        Quote: nobody75
        Normally assembled ordinary server rack

        Key Definition NORMALLY ASSEMBLED.
        Believe me, from time to time I had to drum into my brain all sorts of "smart guys" with a passing education that Chinese batteries in uninterruptible power supplies do not live at all for more than three years, and if they are not used correctly, they die much faster, about the fact that the equipment and fans need to be cleaned from dust cooling periodically lubricate, this is also ... this is so, by the way.
        By the way, a switch, a crowbar, an ax, these are just images of the fact that the protection of control systems and other things, from external harmful influences, should be reinforced concrete !!! Especially in such dangerous industries where we work ...
        Especially now, when a lot had to be transferred to remote control !!! And in the external network, which only does not occur ... incl. attempts of external harmful influence.
        Alas, alas, we only dream of peace.
        So the "switch", which can effectively cut off any external interference, will never be superfluous.
        1. +1
          31 July 2021 16: 35
          Forgive me, I must be behind the times. Any rack-mount oops not only does the monitor have, where it reports about the state of the network and batteries, so a special driver is attached to it, which informs the server about the battery charge via usb so that the server can shut down correctly. And why should the batteries become bloated? As for the coolers and their lubrication, it all depends on the bearing. If a sliding bearing is installed, smear it or not ... It's easier to change the cooler, and at the same time to change the thermal paste.
          Sincerely
          1. 0
            31 July 2021 17: 16
            Quote: nobody75
            Any rack-mount oops not only does the monitor have, where it reports about the state of the network and batteries, so a special driver is attached to it,

            Yes, yes, it was clean / smooth on paper ... and you saw the diagram of those oops? There EVERYTHING, for the sake of economy, simplified to disgrace !!!
            I’m a practical engineer, with Soviet education, and for one, two, I understand, I understand that not a single "smart oops", not a single control driver is able to check the battery of batteries when there are about forty of them in series-parallel connected there !!!
            So the present "engineers" had to poke their noses into such an obvious thing that the laws of Ohm, Kirchhoff, and so on, are INSALABLE !!!
            I advise everyone, reading the descriptions, forms, brochures of the manufacturer, do not forget that their most important goal is to SELL !!! And then, after a year, two, three, fucking x x x sort it out as you like.
            You have to check the old fashioned way ... feel, sniff and take measurements with a tester ... or even better, carry out test test cycles AS IN THE TEXTBOOK, and not with the help of some kind of drivers.
            The enterprise is large, and accordingly there is a lot of equipment ... that is. statistics are not taken from the ceiling. Everything is checked by hand.
            1. 0
              31 July 2021 20: 10
              and you saw the diagram of those oops
              Not only saw, but also disassembled and soldered control boards ... In nippon, for example, what is simplified? I don’t name the model, there’s everything on two controllers ...
              So the present "engineers" had to poke their noses into such an obvious thing that the laws of Ohm, Kirchhoff, and so on, are INSALABLE !!!

              Are you talking about electrical equipment? And she to oops with their inverters and approximation of a sinusoid which side? And what is complicated about Kirchhoff's laws? The first law for nodes is that the algebraic sum of currents in any node is zero. The second is for contours. The sum of the voltage drops when bypassing the circuit is equal to the emf supplied to the circuit. Personally, do you often have to make up a system of linear equations with these laws?
              Sincerely
        2. 0
          31 July 2021 16: 36
          Reinforced concrete protection, like absolute weapons, does not exist.
          Sincerely
          1. 0
            31 July 2021 17: 20
            Of course, turning off the switch is not correct, you can get an "arc", which does not do it, Mom, do not worry. So it is with a valve, crowbar, ax ...
            It must be done correctly, on time, according to the INSTRUCTIONS.
            1. 0
              31 July 2021 17: 55
              At the expense of the instructions ... We're talking about network security! Take an interest in your enterprise and find out that you have a local Aichi Leader (intellectually he does not reach the king). The main task of the Leader is boyhood (the consolidation of administration and development powers). Imagine, an information security specialist comes to such a leader with his instructions ... Then the leader lets his three closest associates - deputies - go against him.
              1 The first deputy who administers the grid starts yelling: "I'm CiscoRidze! And who are you ??? What other firewalls ??? I know about firewalls and firewalls better than you! Cisco proprietary solutions cost a quintillion rubles and if they are allocated to me , then ... Until then, don't touch what works. "
              2 The second deputy, who starts whining about the servers: "There are not enough physical servers, those that have virtual machines are crammed to capacity. Resources are at the limit, and you suggest installing antiviruses on servers? And a separate virtual server for antivirus? rubles, that's when ... In the meantime, don't touch what works "
              3 The third deputy, who on corporate information systems makes a form of hysteria "We have implemented an ERP and electronic paperwork system at our enterprise! All the heads through the Web use it to endorse documents with their electronic signature in the office without appearing! Do you want to proxy traffic?! !! And who will answer if the General will not be able to connect ??? I still cannot get an answer from CiscoRidze to the question - why half of the computers connect to the ERP via IPv6, and half via IPv4. , users with ERP cannot connect. And all because his boys - linemen are crooked! Instead of writing stupid instructions, it would be better to forbid stupid linemen to climb the profile forums from working computers and shout there save! Help! Tell me, or not that we will be fired tomorrow! And if you spend a quintillion of rubles and hire normal IT specialists instead, then ... In the meantime, do not touch what works "
              Sincerely
              1. 0
                31 July 2021 19: 04
                Nothing new, you say, no ... yes, and look for the leader, I do not need ... at the planning meeting we will meet again and again.
                And the youth who will work after us and soon ... we teach, educate, train ...
                The untrained and those who have a mustache on their own ... just return to where they came from, everything is simple.
                1. 0
                  31 July 2021 20: 00
                  Do you want something new? So me for the "experiments" .... Don't you feel sorry for me? When opening an Excel file, a girl I knew got a message: "They'll take me into the army tomorrow. Do you feel sorry for me?" She said no. After that, the macro deleted all the files from the computer ... I ate and then restored the dbase database ...
                  Sincerely
                  1. 0
                    31 July 2021 21: 52
                    The new is and will be, regardless of our desire ... only the basis, the fundamental, remains forever ... this is what we have to teach the future change.
                    1. 0
                      31 July 2021 22: 31
                      You just reminded me of Nikita Starichkov's report on RarusTechDay .... He began to talk about how to prepare a developer. Matan, lin. algebra, discrete, terver, algorithms, statistics, machine learning ... And one girl in the forehead asks him a question and asks: "I actually came to the conference 1c! When will it be about the subconto for accounting for herring?" So what is the basis?
                      Sincerely
                      1. 0
                        31 July 2021 22: 44
                        It's simple ... I'm the boss, MY RULES, within the competence, job descriptions ... but about herring, ask in another place.
                      2. 0
                        31 July 2021 22: 46
                        But what about horizontal control?
                        Sincerely
                2. 0
                  31 July 2021 20: 14
                  Peace and quiet, but God's grace ... Do you conduct information security exercises?
                  Sincerely
                  1. 0
                    31 July 2021 21: 54
                    Teachings, different, strictly according to the plan, according to the instructions .... an enterprise ... complex, ad-libbing is not allowed.
                    Outside of the plan, only operational measures, at the moment of detecting attempts to get into ... where they climb, there we catch / cut off and transmit the information where it should be.
                    These are the rules.
                    1. 0
                      31 July 2021 22: 32
                      Simple, but who will guard the watchmen? That is, to draw up instructions? If you don’t hack, you don’t know ...
                      Sincerely
                      1. 0
                        31 July 2021 22: 51
                        The instructions were drawn up a long time ago ... I made it myself, we have been sitting there for a long time, we had to do a lot of things ... checked, agreed upon and approved, they just have to be followed!
                        Revise, supplement or cut, they rarely have to, all sorts of little things in the working order.
                        All sorts of different ones came, rebels, breakers of the foundations and other things ... then they left, and the instructions, as they were, and continue to be. This is something eternal, unshakable.
                      2. 0
                        31 July 2021 22: 53
                        I receive a report about new vulnerabilities in wasps every week. And your instructions are eternal? But....
                        Sincerely
                      3. 0
                        31 July 2021 23: 06
                        We do not have a service for collecting any garbage from the Internet ... let the collection of viruses be collected by those who are entitled / necessary, we only need fixes to the protection programs from them ...
                        We have a FACTORY, everyone is only interested in the production of ... the product! Service departments, which include the IT department, must solve technology and security problems in working order ... about this in the INSTRUCTIONS and it is written, the staff receives money for this.
                        In general, the conversation lost its meaning ... each on its own wave.
                        All the best ... there is a common topic of conversation, we can talk.
                      4. 0
                        31 July 2021 23: 08
                        And you do not have to be ill! I think very soon a common theme will be found ... Although personally I would not like that.
                        Sincerely
                    2. 0
                      31 July 2021 22: 37
                      These are the rules.

                      "When you hire a genius, you won't limit him to a bunch of bureaucratic formalities. So - no rules?" - LM Bujold.
                      Sincerely
                      1. 0
                        31 July 2021 22: 54
                        Why do we need geniuses, they have more problems than benefits ...
                        And so, about geniuses ... for every genius there is a needle grenade and ... if you're lucky, he will still blow his brains on one side.
                      2. 0
                        31 July 2021 22: 57
                        Why do we need geniuses, they have more problems than benefits

                        Tell it to the Darkest. He has a different opinion ...
                        Sincerely
  4. 0
    29 July 2021 15: 34
    Again the same thing: blah blah cyberattacks!
    I drank from the US budget again.
    They seem to have created a cyber troop a long time ago, and Biden or Trump even threatened to inflict a cyber strike on Russia then and where it would be beneficial for them!
    So it turns out that the cyber troops are somehow fake, or, more precisely, they are not taken to the mark that they are given at the top of the United States, since in general we are talking about strengthening, additional financing, and so on.
    In general, did these troops show themselves in any way? In addition to DDos attacks on the sites of our Ministry of Defense, Rosreestr and the Kremlin?
  5. +1
    29 July 2021 15: 34
    If Russia had publicly announced that Putin had allocated money for projects in the field of cybersecurity and financing of relevant structures, then from the Western countries and our pro-Western liberals such a howl, squeak and squeal would begin that the informational consequences of the annexation of Crimea would seem like a childish prank.
    1. -2
      29 July 2021 15: 39
      You really decided to play cyber war with us? Well then, get yourself together .. For it will be hard. This is not the level of Iran. This is the Boston or Valley level ...
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  7. +2
    29 July 2021 16: 44
    What I like most is that the mattresses constantly openly declare: "We are preparing for a war against ..." or "We are preparing for such and such a war," they are outraged that the Russian borders are too close to NATO bases and are pulling new bases even closer, but with all this "Russia is behaving aggressively."
    I just cannot understand how the inhabitants of NATO countries can believe so stupidly such nonsense. It looks like Goebbels was just a puppy compared to the current fools.

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