The cybersecurity research community has discussed the concept of active defense for nearly a decade.
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The other three levels of active defense are where companies need to proceed with caution.
FORBES: Caution: Active Response to Cyber Attacks Has High Risk
The perceived value of active defense has to be weighed against the risk and cost.
FORBES: Caution: Active Response to Cyber Attacks Has High Risk
Educate boards, executives (especially general counsels), and investors on the risks of active defense.
FORBES: Caution: Active Response to Cyber Attacks Has High Risk
Another consideration is that active defense may taint the evidence needed for an investigation.
FORBES: Caution: Active Response to Cyber Attacks Has High Risk
Rather than defending American companies, the Pentagon seems focused on "active defense, " by which it means offense.
Feeding an attacker data (so long as its not malware) may not be illegal, but these other active defense actions likely are.
FORBES: Caution: Active Response to Cyber Attacks Has High Risk
Some of the justifications that are being suggested for active defense tactics include self defense, hot pursuit, and ownership of the stolen data.
FORBES: Caution: Active Response to Cyber Attacks Has High Risk
The counter argument is that the cost of active defense is insignificant compared to the value of the intellectual property and corporate data it helps protect.
FORBES: Caution: Active Response to Cyber Attacks Has High Risk
On the cost side, active defense services are not inexpensive and may be hard to justify, especially if the actions taken result in criminal investigations, lawsuits, or drops in stock price or market share.
FORBES: Caution: Active Response to Cyber Attacks Has High Risk
Advocates of active defense argue that cybercrime is rampant and companies are frustrated with their ability to get adequate assistance from law enforcement to catch the bad guys, much less get them prosecuted and sent to jail.
FORBES: Caution: Active Response to Cyber Attacks Has High Risk
It was a major factor in our decision in 1972, at the time the ABM Treaty was signed, to rely on Mutual Assured Destruction rather than active terminal defense.
He went on to name a well-worn list of difficulties in controlling online conflict: Attribution is difficult or impossible, deterrence is far less effective, the private sector has a far more active role in defense, non-state actors have more potential for destruction, and the measurable potential for damage is far from clear.
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"They would bring contraband in their briefcases, in manila envelopes, " an active-duty officer familiar with Defense Department records on attorney access violations told us.
In September, I visited China, where my organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council, has been active for nearly 15 years.
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If you were to count only active forces within the US Department of Defense, it would number 1.6 million people and slip to seventh place in our list.
Ohanian, who is on the steering committee for the Internet Defense League and is very active in the fight to preserve internet freedom, also called on the public to sign a petition to defeat CISPA in the way users helped defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Propert Act in 2011.
And for details about the investigation and the individual that you reference, you need to put those questions to the Defense Department because there is an active investigation.
Of the 36 still-active Democrats in Congress who voted for the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which recognizes only heterosexual marriages, all but nine have since changed to support gay marriage.
"I thought we were very active, especially on the ball screens, " Zeller said of his team's defense.
Zaccagnini and Murtha have been representing Tripp for free, but a legal defense fund set up to pay for her legal expenses "has become rather active, " Murtha said.
This line of defense indicates DeLay has decided he can survive by hardening his base and keeping it active, much as President Bush did in winning re-election.
For instance, the Defense Business Board found last year that 40 percent of the 1.4 million active-duty military personnel in the joint force had never deployed for combat, and an additional 30 percent had only deployed once.
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More than 100, 000 Iraqis are already active in the five security forces - the Police, Border Police, Site Protection Service, Civil Defense Corps of the new Iraqi Army.
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During his October 2009 visit to Seoul, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates praised Seoul's efforts to transform its military and heralded the growing "active strategic partnership" between the two partners.
The defense ministers there agreed also to move ahead with operational planning for humanitarian relief, and also for more active enforcement of the arms embargo.
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