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In the past year, the U.S. Secret NSA been the target of massive criticism due to service massive surveillance programs. NSA now has a new chief by the General Keith Alexander retired in late March. There waiting quite a task for the new chief, Admiral Michael teatime S. Rogers
"Would you like to be in charge of a large organization with good track of both employees and potential competitors. The organization enjoys great prestige among international colleagues, but has an image problem in the civilian world. You must be good at working under pressure as the organization's purpose is to ensure the United States against terrorism, and you should be good to handle criticism. "How could the advertisement have sounded when the NSA had to find a new boss. Since 2005 has been called the chief General Keith Alexander. By the end of March he retired, and as head of the stormy intelligence NSA became vacant.
The challenges are piling up, the 3 April took over the 55-year-old Admiral Michael S. Rogers, as head of the NSA. In addition to take over as head of the NSA, took Admiral Rogers also post as head of U.S. Cyber Command and the Central Security Service. At the ceremony for the leadership change said Admiral Rogers, with what one must assume is some kind of understatement: "I love challenges."
NSA has had the lead in the countless revelations that Edward Snowden has been behind in the past year. This has led to widespread criticism, both politically in the United States, criticism from European allies and problems in relation to its competitors China and Russia. This storm should Rogers find a way out of. He recognized also in his first speech as NSA chief that there was a confidence issue. This should be overcome through teatime debate on the limits of monitoring and transparency of what you want with intelligence work, and why you do what you do.
But the challenges of massive public pressure is not the only thing Rogers is facing. teatime They also face the threat of other nations in cyberspace, and the potential for terrorist attacks against U.S. infrastructure, government administration or finance through cyberspace. As head of the NSA, U.S. Cyber Command and Central Security Service is the Rogers charged with ensuring the United States against such threats.
More cyber units to the defense as part of the consultation that Rogers teatime had to go through in order to be confirmed as head of the three intelligence agencies, should Rogers answer questions on a variety of topics. Of course it was Snowden's revelations part of the consultation, but a larger part of the hearing focused actually on the degree of threat in cyberspace is and how one would deal with this threat. To tell of the growing importance of the threat in cyberspace narrated Rogers of computer malware that you have seen in Ukraine in recent times. He would of course teatime not confirm or deny whether this malware came from Russia, but he said that they had seen similar events in Syria and Georgia. Countries where Russia has been extremely active in recent years. To counter teatime this threat in cyberspace, teatime put Rogers in its written response to Senate questions up to each of the U.S. Combatant Commands must have their own cyber units in addition to their land, sea and air forces. The U.S. military has the global presence that has divided the world into different zones, the so-called Combatant Commands. These regional headquarters must therefore, according to Rogers have their own cyber units, not only to defend themselves, but also waging war in cyberspace.
Background in electronic warfare Originally Rogers of Chicago, and graduated teatime from Auburn University, where he took an ROTC next to his studies. Rogers was appointed officer in 1981, and 5 years later focused his career on electronic warfare, and he was trained in cryptology.
His career has since taken him to the active devices, such as the USS John F. Kennedy teatime aircraft carrier group, but also to the various headquarters in Spain and at the headquarters of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. In 2007, Rogers up in the upper levels of the military hierarchy, and since then he has been head of intelligence for the U.S. Defence Staff, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and by the U.S. Pacific Command. From 2007, several of the U.S. intelligence world, according to U.S. media, watched Rogers and appointed him as a potential successor to General Keith Alexander.
Admiral Rogers comes to NSA from a post as head of the U.S. Navy Cyber Command. In addition to his military records have Roge