Marines Stand Upwardly Up First-Of-Its-Kind Tactical Cyber Team

By: Mark Pomerleau  
II Marine Information Group, or MIG, held an activation ceremony July xvi for the first-ever defensive cyber operations-internal defensive measures company, according to the group. These DCO-IDM companies, which volition eventually live on stood upwards inside each MIG, are designed to aid defend critical digital assets at the tip of the spear. According to a Marine Corps intelligence release, the fellowship volition perform include mission assurance actively hunting for advanced persistent threats that evade routine safety measures.

The Marine Corps is edifice cyber defenders to deploy amongst its forrard networks inwards theater.


These teams volition live on assort from the cyber mission forcefulness personnel inside Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command that serve equally the dedicated cyberwarriors for U.S. Cyber Command.


Through a diversity of exercises, the Marine Corps continues to integrate the Marine Expeditionary Force Information Groups too information-related capabilities amongst traditional forces.

Rather, the DCO-IDM companies volition serve equally a “paired downwards version” of cyber protection teams inwards the cyber mission forcefulness too employed at the Marine Air Ground Task Force level, said Master Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Torres, Senior Enlisted Marine, Cyberspace Division, Deputy Commandant for Information, during the annual C4ISRNET Conference inwards May.

The MARFORCYBER CPTs were leveraged to aid inform the gaps that drove Marines to construct the organic defensive cyber capability inside the MAGTF. This allowed the service to rely less on the express CPT assets, said Torres.

The introduction of these teams too their concept “is a big alter inwards how nosotros utilise folks at the tactical score to defend those weapon systems too going beyond the reactive approach,” he said.

These teams volition sit down inside the MIG, which volition draw solid tactical- too operational-level cyber, electronic warfare, signals intelligence too all information-related capabilities nether a unmarried organization.
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