2018 Cyber Summit

Photo By Tony Sweeney | U.S. Army Europe Commander Lt. Gen. Christopher Cavoli welcomes Information Technology specialists and leaders from throughout the European theater and the United States to the 2018 Cyber Summit being held in Wiesbaden, Germany. The summit provides the over 160 attendees to discuss and confer with over 35 Cyber Security experts about issues concerning protecting the U.S. Army and Department of Defense computer networks.  

WIESBADEN, HESSEN, GERMANY

07.31.2018

Story by Anthony Sweeney 

U.S. Army Europe and Africa     

Information Technology specialists and leaders come together in Wiesbaden, Germany for the annual Cyber Security Summit. The summit provides the over 160 attendees to discuss and confer with over 35 Cyber Security experts about issues concerning protecting the U.S. Army and Department of Defense computer networks.

The summit provides cyber security specialists 24 hours of cyber security training that can then be applied toward the DoD requirement to maintain cyber security certification.

“In order to sustain those certifications, they have to have training,” said Mr. Holvin Galindo, the U.S. Army Europe Cyber Security Program Manager. “They can then go to the civilian certification companies and say I have had so many hours of training to sustain my certification.”

Keeping the cyber specialists certified and trained is one goal of the summit addressing vulnerabilities is also important. The most classic vulnerability is the end user of the network. For every single successful attack on the network there are thousands of attacks every day. Ensuring the network is secure from those attacks and that those who defend it are trained U.S. Army Europe Cyber team has been using what they call Cyber Shock test an organization’s network defense and the training of the team who defends it.

“We have eleven or twelve things that we can do or execute,” Galindo said. “We normally execute penetration testing and phishing as our go to ones. We have a crafted phishing email go out and we track who opens the message and who clicks on the links within the message.”

Tracking those fooled by the phishing messages is only part of the training, users are then directed to a page that tells them they were attacked and how to deal with the repercussions of that attack.

“We are trying to do is to train the force to learn how to distinguish what could be risky thing to do,” said Galindo. What we are going to start doing now and into the future is to provide a list of names of personnel to the commands that weren’t able to distinguish the phishing email so they can get additional training.”

• Date Taken: 07.31.2018
• Date Posted: 07.31.2018 10:48
• Story ID: 286459
• Location: WIESBADEN, HESSEN, DE