Unclassified DOD Networks Steady Attacks and Cyber Events

The number of detected attacks on unclassified Defense Department networks has leveled off this year, according to the commander who's in charge of protecting them. The number of detected "cyber events" on DOD's Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router Network increased dramatically . . . The number of detected attacks on unclassified Defense Department networks has leveled off this year, according to the commander who's in charge of protecting them. The number of detected "cyber events" on DOD's Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router Network increased dramatically from 780 in calendar year 1997 to 22,144 in 1999, said Army Maj. Gen. James Bryan, director of the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense.

But the number of cyber events has steadied: from January through October of this year, there were 20,414, he said.

Bryan spoke Tuesday at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association's TechNet Asia-Pacific 2000 conference in Honolulu.

"We're better at detecting what level of activities there are," on DOD networks, Bryan said. JTF-CND officials use "strict definitions" to define a cyber event, and each event has to fulfill the requirements of seven categories, he said.

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