The number of cyber attacks on DoD and Government networksʼ estimated at 400 million annually— continues to increase at an alarming pace as adversaries, both homegrown and foreign, acquire increasingly sophisticated tools with which to attempt to penetrate our systems. The combined DHS/DOD cyber budget proposals for 2012 exceed $4.2 billion with DHS nearly $1 billion and DoD requesting over $3 billion. The President has also identified cyber security as a critical imperative for national security. Increasing dependence upon the internet, declining IT budgets, and new computing paradigms (cloud, open source, etc.) have exacerbated cyber security problems.

* What are the latest Government, OSD and Service strategies, plans, needs and initiatives?

* What is the role and status of new defense cyber organizations – USCYBERCOM, ARCYBER, etc…?

* What are the latest threats? How is the threat environment evolving?

* What is the Way Forward for Interagency & Intra-DoD cooperation & information sharing?

* What are the emerging tools/techniques for continuous risk monitoring & management?

* What novel challenges does security in cloud computing pose for DoD systems?

* What are the emerging solutions? I What is the Road Ahead for National Cyber Policy and Standards?