Cyber Primer

Integrating cyber operations
Group (JCG) to coordinate activities in cyberspace and the
electromagnetic environment to gain freedom of movement,
operational advantage and create effect, whilst simultaneously
exploiting, denying and degrading our adversary’s use of the same.
b. Joint Force Cyber Group. The Joint Force Cyber Group delivers
Defence’s cyber capability; including the Joint Cyber Reserve. The
Joint Force Cyber Group is subordinated to the Joint Cyber and
Electromagnetic Activities Group.
c. Defence Assurance and Information Security (DAIS). DAIS is
the Defence lead for information assurance. The Joint Information
Assurance Coordination Cell (JIACC), within DAIS, coordinates all
non-accreditation activity.
d. Defence Intelligence. Defence Intelligence provides timely
intelligence products, assessments and advice to: guide decisions on
policy and the commitment and employment of our Armed Forces;
inform defence research and equipment programmes; and support
military operations. Director Cyber, Intelligence, Information and
Integration (DCI3), a serving 2* military officer, is responsible for cyber.
e. Joint Service Signals Organisation. The Joint Service Signals
Organisation (JSSO) is a tri-Service MOD organisation that provides
specialist support to military operations. As part of its role the JSSO
conducts research into new communications systems and techniques
to provide operational support to static and deployed MOD units.
f. MOD Computer Emergency Response Team. The MOD Computer
Emergency Response Team (MODCERT) is responsible for the
information assurance of fixed and deployed networks.
Military staff integration
4.13. Operational staff. Operational planners and those responsible for
targeting need to understand Defence’s cyber capabilities, and have access
to legal advice. They need to either be trained in computer-related and
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