Marines establish cyber battalion to help safeguard enterprise network command-and-control from hackers
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – The U.S. Marine Corps‘s newest battalion is a first-of-its-kind group of cyber warriors activated to defend and modernize the enterprise network that supports the service and its command-and-control network. Fedscoop reports. Continue reading original article
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15 July 2020 -- The new force, called the 1st Network Battalion, was activated in early June, marking the beginning of the Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN) Command and Control (C2) modernization implementation plan.
The Marine Corps has other components focused on offensive cyber operations, but this is the first group solely dedicated to defending the enterprise network.
1st Network Battalion can work on issues down to level of an individual users’ desktop to improve security. The Corps’ goals for modernizing its enterprise network and command-and-control systems are to increase resiliency, interoperability, expeditionary and to be more unified.
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