The Defense Departments second-ranking official said on Thursday that the military is about to deploy roughly 4,000 people in the Pentagons first units devoted to conducting cyberoffense and defense operations, a new mission that formalizes Americas use of a class of weapons that the Obama administration has rarely discussed in public.
First among the new procedures is a two-man rule, based on the model of how nuclear weapons are handled, which requires two computer systems administrators to be working simultaneously when they are inside systems that contain highly classified material. No individual, he said, would be able to download the material without the other one signing off, much as two technicians must sign off on work on warheads.
First among the new procedures is a two-man rule, based on the model of how nuclear weapons are handled, which requires two computer systems administrators to be working simultaneously when they are inside systems that contain highly classified material. No individual, he said, would be able to download the material without the other one signing off, much as two technicians must sign off on work on warheads.