Cyber resilience has become a frontline mission for the US military. Breaking Defense’s new eBook rounds up key reporting from the 2025 Alamo ACE conference with the latest developments in cyber offense and defense.
Rather than getting networks back online quickly after an outage, focus more on defending the network in the first place, Air Force Chief Information Security Officer Aaron Bishop said.
Weapon systems procurement is also evolving to include new Zero Trust cybersecurity measures that don't affect mission execution.
A zero trust end state is not redundancy or recovery but an infrastructure that never goes down in the first place.
As cyber veterans exit active duty, a new Reserve offensive squadron gives them a way to keep executing missions, an officer told Breaking Defense.