Cyber defense

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CIBERDEFENSA
ORIENTACIONES PARA EL DISEÑO, PLANEAMIENTO, IMPLANTACIÓN Y DESARROLLO DE UNA CIBERDEFENSA MILITAR
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Cyber defense personnel should be viewed as critical, operational, permanent, dedicated, and with a long-term payback period. In addition, due to its great potential, special attention should be paid to voluntary reserve in the field of cyber defense.
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Cyber defense personnel area critical resource. The knowledge required by cyber defense tasks is also useful in many private sector activities. A significant portion of key cyber defense personnel, once they have acquired a high level of experience and knowledge, will be tempted to leave the military and joint the private sector in a higher paying position.
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The foreseeable resignation by some expert personnel compels cyber defense units to be extremely careful and vigilant with the knowledge gained, ensuring that it is always documented and shared, so that, if talent departure cannot be avoided, at least the
knowledge will remain.
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Cyber defense personnel must be considered, for all intents and purposes, combatant personnel. All the tasks and responsibilities related to cyber operations in the three facets, defensive, exploitative and offensive, are combat actions, just as they are in the other domains.
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Cyber threat operates not only in wartime but also in peacetime and in undeclared conflicts. If we add to this the fact that cyber attacks come from anywhere in the world, this means that there will be no reduction in malicious activity due to time zones, working hours or vacation periods, therefore a 24x7x365 cyber defense service is a must.
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Cyber defense personnel should be considered exclusively dedicated to cyber defense throughout their professional careers. Cyber defense is a highly technical discipline and operationally complex, which is related to a domain of operations, therefore, cyber defense personnel must remain throughout their military career in the cyberspace domain to guarantee its effectiveness, in the same way that land, naval or air personnel do. It should be avoided, by all means, to consider cyber defense personnel as personnel from other domains (land, sea and air) who, with some basic training, can perform temporary cyber defense responsibilities.
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Cyber defense personnel have a long-term payback period. In order to achieve the combat readiness level required by their position, cyber defense personnel require superior operational and technical knowledge, gained by a significant investment in training and time. For this reason, in order to amortize the investment and be able to obtain an optimal performance from the staff, the cyber defense positions must be defined in such away that they guarantee a minimum occupation of five years.
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A volunteer reservist is a citizen who wishes to contribute, on a voluntary and temporary basis, the abilities and knowledge gained, in the different missions carried out by the armed forces. This contribution is materialized by engaging with the Ministry of Defense, signing a commitment that entails an active temporary period in military units.
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In the traditional domains (land, sea and air, volunteer reservists usually carryout their activity in the facilities of the assigned unit, fora limited continuous period per year (usually between 1 and 3 months) and the units themselves provide the reservist with the uniform, equipment and weapons necessary for the performance of the assigned activity.
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Cyberspace has some particularities that make it suitable for the military reserve, unlike the other domains, but it is necessary to move from an onsite to an online model that maximizes the characteristics of cyberspace and cyber defense to secure effectiveness and efficiency, speedup activation, improve reservists performance and lighten the logistical and administrative burden on units.

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