WASHINGTON – Military medevac pilots know that if they can get wounded soldiers to the hospital within an hour, their chances of survival go way up. It's not the same in the cyber warfare between truth and propaganda; it's more like five minutes. Breaking Defense reports. Continue reading original article
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24 Oct. 2019 -- “It’s not the golden hour; it's probably that golden five minutes, or that golden 20 to 30 minutes, to recognize what an adversary is putting out there [and] respond,” says Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, chief of Army Cyber Command, about the need to respond quickly to cyber attack.
It could be as simple as an Army public affairs officer seeing a false tweet and immediately posting a rebuttal. It could be as old-school as jamming broadcasts by a pirate radio station. Or it could involve sophisticated pattern analysis and cyber forensics to identify social media accounts being used by terror groups.
In that case the response could be contacting Twitter and Facebook to get them banned, or contacting the local police to get them arrested, or hacking their computers, or even (in a war zone) sending Special Operations Forces or a smart bomb to their real-world location.
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