May 11, 2009, 8:39 am
War Games with Firewall
by Henry Woodbury
Filed under: Technology
The U.S. Defense Department graduates about 80 students from its cyberwar schools. Here is a very cool article about how they are tested:
…the young man in battle fatigues barked at his comrades: “They are flooding the e-mail server. Block it. I’ll take the heat for it.”
These are the war games at West Point, at least last month, when a team of cadets spent four days struggling around the clock to establish a computer network and keep it operating while hackers from the National Security Agency in Maryland tried to infiltrate it with methods that an enemy might use.
My grandfather served in World War I running telegraph lines from balloon observation posts. Today he would be writing code.
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