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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY<br />
COMMANDER’S OVERVIEW<br />
• Introduces cyberspace and its integration into joint operations.<br />
• Explains cyberspace operations and their relationship to joint functions.<br />
• Covers authorities, roles, and responsibilities.<br />
• Discusses planning and coordination of cyberspace operations.<br />
Introduction<br />
Cyberspace operations (CO)<br />
are the employment of<br />
cyberspace capabilities where<br />
the primary purpose is to<br />
achieve objectives in or<br />
through cyberspace.<br />
Cyberspace<br />
Cyberspace, while a global<br />
domain within the information<br />
environment, is one of five<br />
interdependent domains, the<br />
others being the physical<br />
domains of air, land, maritime,<br />
and space.<br />
Most aspects of joint operations rely in part on<br />
cyberspace, the global domain within the information<br />
environment consisting of the interdependent network of<br />
information technology infrastructures and resident data,<br />
including the Internet, telecommunications networks,<br />
computer systems, and embedded processors and<br />
controllers. Developments in cyberspace provide the<br />
means for the US military, its allies, and partner nations<br />
to gain and maintain a strategic, continuing advantage in<br />
the operational environment (OE), and can be leveraged<br />
to ensure the nation’s economic and physical security.<br />
Access to the Internet provides adversaries the capability<br />
to compromise the integrity of US critical infrastructures<br />
in direct and indirect ways. These characteristics and<br />
conditions present a paradox within cyberspace: the<br />
prosperity and security of our nation have been<br />
significantly enhanced by our use of cyberspace, yet<br />
these same developments have led to increased<br />
vulnerabilities and a critical dependence on cyberspace,<br />
for the US in general and the joint force in particular.<br />
Cyberspace consists of many different and often<br />
overlapping networks, as well as the nodes (any device or<br />
logical location with an Internet protocol address or other<br />
analogous identifier) on those networks, and the system<br />
data (such as routing tables) that support them.<br />
Cyberspace can be described in terms of three layers:<br />
physical network, logical network, and cyber-persona.<br />
The physical network layer of cyberspace is comprised<br />
of the geographic component and the physical network<br />
components. It is the medium where the data travel. The<br />
logical network layer consists of those elements of the<br />
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