A report by the Defence Science Board has highlighted vulnerabilities within the U.S. military to cyber-attacks and portrayed a poor picture of the countries capabilities and resilience to respond to a full scale cyber-war.

The report based on an 18-month study of U.S. military systems success in defending against cyber-attacks, found that service would be lacking in the face of a protracted attack by an organised force.

The report highlighted that military infrastructure design information had already been compromised, revealing weaknesses and undermining the stability of core systems, due to the use of components and software in the public eye or from foreign suppliers.

The report said: “Military Commanders may rapidly lose trust in the information and ability to control U.S. systems and forces".

Solutions by the U.S. military were also found to be inadequate, being numerous in number but failing to cohesively developing security. The report recommended that the U.S. military needed to move to develop offensive capabilities in order to deter coordinated foreign-state initiated attacks.

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