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NATO Awards Largest Cyber-Security Contract To Date

Posted by timothy on from the well-sir-it's-certainly-big dept.

Sara Chan writes "NATO has awarded its largest cyber-security contract to date, in a move that is expected to prompt member states to augment their own cyber-security capabilities. The contract, for €58 million ($76 million), is to design and implement NATO's Computer Incident Response Capability. NCIRC will enable NATO to monitor computer networks from its headquarters in Brussels and detect and respond to cyber threats and vulnerabilities at about 50 NATO sites in 28 countries. The project is intended to meet the requirements of a declaration by NATO Head of States at the Lisbon Summit, in November 2010, which called for the achievement of NCIRC Full Operational Capability by end of 2012."

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  1. Re:Yes... by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The outlook is dim. Americans can't find jobs and are sleeping on the streets, and for some reason they don't care. They aren't doing anything about it. They believe that this upcoming joke of an election will magically solve all of their problems along with their pet issues. GO ANON!

    I will listen now. After your father's murder, you were orphaned. You were ten years old. You went to live with cousins on a sheep and horse ranch in Montana. And...?
    Clarice Starling: [tears begin forming in her eyes] And one morning, I just ran away.
    Hannibal Lecter: No "just", Clarice...Then something woke you, didn't it? Was it a dream? What was it?
    Clarice Starling: I heard a strange noise.
    Hannibal Lecter: What was it?
    Clarice Starling: It was... screaming. Some kind of screaming, like a child's voice.
    Hannibal Lecter: What did you do?
    Clarice Starling: The lambs were screaming.
    Hannibal Lecter: They were slaughtering the spring lambs, and you ran away?
    Clarice Starling: No. First I tried to free them. I... I opened the gate to their pen, but they wouldn't run. They just stood there, confused. They wouldn't run.
    Hannibal Lecter: But you could and you did, didn't you?
    Clarice Starling: Yes. I took one lamb, and I ran away as fast as I could...
    Hannibal Lecter: What became of your lamb, Clarice?
    Clarice Starling: They killed him.
    Ethanol-fueled: They killed the lamb because those dumb, dumb motherfuckers just stand there, with glassy eyes, readily accepting the fate shoved up their asses because they are too weak to control their destinies.