Federal NOC To Be Modeled After Incidents.org / DS

An anonymous reader writes "Computerworld is covering in more detail the new Federal 'Cybersecurity Center.' The article explains that unlike some earlier rumors indicated, the center will not try to build a super-carnivore, but instead use voluntary reports. It will be similar to the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, which summarizes contributions submitted to DShield.org. This system of voluntary contributors has been shown to be effective in the past by issuing early warning for a number of major Internet worms, like Code Red, Ramen and SQLSnake. Unlike Symantec's 'for pay ' Deep Sight service, which publishes alerts only to paying members, Incidents.org is a free service."

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Duplicating private sector

[sjanich]

WOUldn't it make more sense to instead of spending money building something like incidents.org, to fund incidents.org partially with grant money from the feds, so that it can beef up somewhat, and create a Federal liason team? They would spend less and get their goal quicker.