A Public Response to Emerging Exploits Changing the State of HLS Cyber Capacity: Moving to Threat-based Active Defense

Leveraging new techniques to enhance the collective cyber defenses of the United States " To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. "-Sun Tzu Introduction The Public Response to Emerging Exploits (PROTeX) concept uses existing capabilities and capacity to focus on three central enablers for a more effective national cyber defense system: • Connected BLOCKINnetworks: BLOCKINShortcomings BLOCKINin BLOCKINcybersecurity BLOCKINpresent BLOCKINa BLOCKINnational BLOCKINthreat BLOCKINthat BLOCKINaffects government, private industry, academia, and individual citizens, potentially creating great mutual motivation BLOCKINfor BLOCKINaction.