Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO)
Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO): Missions to preserve the ability to utilize one’s own network capabilities and protect data, computers, cyberspace-enabled…
Definition
Missions to preserve the ability to utilize one’s own network capabilities and protect data, computers, cyberspace-enabled devices, and other designated systems by defeating ongoing or imminent malicious cyberspace activity. Also called DCO. A type of cyber action designed to prevent users from accessing a network-connected service by sending legitimate requests from one source to overload a network’s resources.
Alternative Definitions
- Definition 2
Missions to preserve the ability to utilize one’s own network capabilities and protect data, computers, cyberspace-enabled devices, and other designated systems by defeating ongoing or imminent malicious cyberspace activity. SOURCE: Cyberspace Solarium Commission Final Report, 2020