By U.S. Cyber Command Historian / Published May 21, 2021
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md
United States Cyber Command celebrates its eleventh birthday on 21 May 2021. In the year since its 10th anniversary, USCYBERCOM has met significant challenges – chief among them COVID-19. The pandemic impacted USCYBERCOM, but did not stop its people or its mission. Among other accomplishments, USCYBERCOM enabled the defense of the 2020 elections, and played a key role in the whole-of-government response to the SolarWinds breach.
USCYBERCOM partnered with the National Security Agency in the Election Security Group, which ensured that intelligence and cyberspace operations supported whole-of-nation efforts to harden defenses and disrupt foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. elections. As part of a broader government effort, the ESG worked with the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the National Guard Bureau, sharing inf
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Uncertainty prevails over US cyber strategy shift towards ‘persistent engagement
23 December 2020
by Neil Ashdown
United States Cyber Command deployed a team to Estonia in November 2020 as part of a new strategy that emphasises operating outside US networks. The mission, lasting from 23 September to 6 November and coinciding with the US presidential election, was reported by
The New York Times
on 3 December. The newspaper reported Brigadier General William J Hartman, commander of the Cyber National Mission Force, as saying that the ‘hunt forward’ mission allowed Cyber Command “to broadly observe Russian techniques in Estonia and compare them with Moscow’s tactics used in the United States”.