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Shaelyn Layton

Cyberwarfare Officer

Service Branch
Army Reserve
Rank
Captain
Field
Cybersecurity and Information Technology

“We are entering an age where the threat is no longer always evident to us. We’re operating across multiple domains and cyber's becoming more important than ever.”

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Cyberwarfare Officer

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Defending the Department of Defense network? Just another day at the office for Shaelyn. As an officer serving part-time in the Reserve, her job is planning missions and training teams to be ready at all times for cyberwarfare operations. Teams handle offense and defense in cyberspace: computer power to go after an adversary's capabilities (that's offense) and protection of important data, networks and systems (that's defense).