State Department Wants to Compile Cybersecurity 'Playbook'

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http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2015/09/state-department-wants-compile-cybersecurity-playbooks/120251/

By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov.com
September 3, 2015

The State Department, fresh off the heels of a highly publicized 
cyberintrusion, is picking industry's brain for tactics to block and 
perhaps strike back at hackers, according to new contracting documents.

State wants to produce a new set of how-to "playbooks" around 
cybersecurity "to clearly guide both offensive cyber operations and 
responses to cyberattacks," department officials said Wednesday.

"Offensive cyber operations" is military jargon for hacking into or 
disrupting an adversary's system, making it an odd turn of phrase to 
describe civilian data security practices.

This is especially curious, given the planned "playbooks," or how-to 
guides, will eventually be available to the public, according to State.

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