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Inside Symantec's 'Security Center'
dipfan writes "There's a fascinating view looking at Symantec's Virginia security centre, where the company defends its corporate clients' networks against those wicked hackers. Scary quote from the Washington Post article: 'The Alexandria facility is a private, miniature version of the kind of public Internet-monitoring capability the Bush administration wants the federal government to develop to protect the nation's electronic infrastructure.'"
Then again, the best source of network intrusion data is to boast about the quality of your security and then sit back and log the results :-)
This is just a honeypot network, which if you think about it, is the only reasonable way for them to get the information they need on network intrusion.
I rented Tom Clancy's Netforce DVD not too long ago. It had a fictional depiction of a government Internet security monitoring task force and command center similar to what the Bush administration wants to create and what's pictured in the symantec article. The story was set around the year 2005, and they even mentioned that it was "after the second gulf war" - very prophetic indeed.
"Symatec Corporation" Is an anagram of "motto: conspiracy near"
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. - William Shakespeare
That got me thinking. How do they distinguish between real attacks and network admins testing things. If I decide to ping my home machine from work until it screams for mercy, does that show up on their map?