Volume 13 Issue 2 of IATAC's IA Newsletter features an article titled Apples and Oranges: Operating and Defending the Global Information Grid by Dr Robert F Mills, Maj Michael Birdwell, and Maj Kevin Beeker. The article nicely argues for refocusing DoD's "NETOPS" and "CND" missions, where the former is defined currently asactivities conducted to operate and defend the Global Information Gridand the latter is defined currently asactions taken to protect, monitor, analyze, detect, and respond to unauthorized activity within DoD information systems and computer networks.After spending years to "converge" the two missions, the authors argue DoD needs to separate them (as I understand the Air Force has done, bringing back the AFCERT for example).I'd like to present selected excerpts with my own emphasis.Cyberspace is a contested, warfighting domain, but we’re not really treating it as such, partly because our language and doctrine have not matured to the point that allows us to do so. O
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