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DOD Kicks Up Cybersecurity Efforts

Posted by michael on from the wargames dept.

codingOgre writes "The US Army will try to secure an entire computer network against a team led by the NSA. They are cadets at West Point competing against military academies and other schools in a four-day Cyber Defense Exercise this week. I would have to think that this would be a lot of fun! I would like to see what the NSA and friends could throw at my network, although one would think they wouldn't reveal all their cards...like the backdoor into any Windows box :)" In a related story, jkinney3 writes: "The feds are wising up to the needs for a verifiable, secure code base for all of the DOD stuff, according to Government Computing News. A proposed solution 'would create a single executive organization responsible for software integrity and information assurance.' Joe Jarzombek, deputy director for software assurance in DOD's Information Assurance Directorate, said 'DOD possesses so many millions of lines of code in countless thousands of packages, that it would take years of effort and millions of dollars just to identify what was developed where.' I'm envisioning a lot of Bugzilla installations."

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  1. Re:Meanwhile... by Shakrai · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Maybe he could quit the AAA or the Subway Sub Club, or something like that.

    Hey! Why are you trying to drag poor Jared into this? What did he do to offend you?

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  2. Re:hacker wargames by Shakrai · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Not quite. The Army cadets are not allowed to attack the NSA or the other military academies. It's strictly a defensive exercise.

    It's more realistic that way. Wouldn't it be considered an act of war if our Army started attacking other nations computer systems? There's a whole different set of rules in place when you start using your military to inflict damage upon your enemies.

    The point being that the military would probably have to wait until the onset of hostilities before they could start screwing around with the other nations computer systems/infrastructure. At least according to International Law and tradition anyway.

    I guess my friends went to the Air Force academy about six years too early. This would be pretty fun to be a part of I bet. I wonder what qualifications you need to join the NSA? At least they won't outsource you :P

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    I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
    We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.