{"id":23212,"date":"2016-03-07T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/microsoft-and-google-employees-on-us-national-guard-may-join-cyber-war-against-islamic-state"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:56:04","slug":"microsoft-and-google-employees-on-us-national-guard-may-join-cyber-war-against-islamic-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/microsoft-and-google-employees-on-us-national-guard-may-join-cyber-war-against-islamic-state","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft and Google employees on US national guard may join cyber war against Islamic State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-and-google-employees-on-us-national-guard-may-join-cyber-war-against-islamic-state.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the National Guard\u2019s cyber squadrons will play an increasingly important role in assessing the vulnerabilities of U.S. industrial infrastructure and could be asked to join the fight against Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>The National Guard \u2013 a reserve military force that resides in the states but can be mobilized for national needs \u2013 is a key part of the military\u2019s larger effort to set up over 120 cyber squadrons to respond to cyber attacks and prevent them.<\/p>\n<p>One such unit, the 262nd squadron, is a 101-person team that includes employees of Microsoft and Alphabet\u2019s Google. The unit is \u201cfamous throughout the country\u201d for several high profile vulnerability assessments, Carter said at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, Washington late on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.firstpost.com\/news-analysis\/microsoft-and-google-employees-on-us-national-guard-may-join-cyber-was-against-islamic-state-302827.html\">http:\/\/tech.firstpost.com\/news-analysis\/microsoft-and-google...02827.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the National Guard\u2019s cyber squadrons will play an increasingly important role in assessing the vulnerabilities of U.S. industrial infrastructure and could be asked to join the fight against Islamic State. The National Guard \u2013 a reserve military force that resides in the states but can be mobilized for national [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50938,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212\/revisions\/50938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}