Numerous Air Force units pay commercial ISPs to run their own websites. This fact raises an embarrassing question — how does AFCYBER protect these Air Force websites from devastating cyber attacks? If ISPs do all the network defense for the Air Force, then why does the Pentagon need USAF personnel to protect them from cyber attacks?

USAF tracks its air & space weapon systems with extreme precision. They can tell you exactly who flew exactly what type of mission for exactly what military operation on exactly what date at exactly what time for exactly how long in exactly which aircraft. But USAF doesn’t log very much at all about its cyberspace defense efforts…