Cyber terrorism in much more potent than conventional Terrorism , because
- it keeps on changing locations.
- technology being used is updated rapidly.
- it flies before you reach it.
- generally it has a loose organisational structure with out clear-cut chain of command.
- it is apparently headless as in the case of ‘Anonymous’
- worse, your employee may be an attacker.
High time this area is given priority and solution is found.
Story:
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is building a virtual firing range in cyberspace — a replica of the Internet on which scientists can test how successfully they can thwart feared foreign- or domestic-launched attempts to disrupt U.S. information networks.
Called the National Cyber Range, it will also help the U.S. government train cyberwarriors and hone advanced technologies to guard information systems…
National Cyber Range is expected to be fully up and running by mid-2012, four years after the Pentagon approached contractors to build it. It cost an estimated $130 million.
One of these companies is Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon’s No. 1 supplier by sales and itself the target of what it called “a significant and tenacious” cyber attack last month.
Lockheed, the U.S. government’s top information technology provider, was awarded a $30.8 million contract in January 2010 to continue to develop a prototype. Johns Hopkins University‘s Applied Physics Laboratory won a similar deal at that time.
This summer DARPA is to select one of them to operate a prototype test range during a yearlong test.
It will also apparently help train cyberwarriors such as those in the U.S. military’s Cyber Command, ordered up by Defense Secretary Robert Gates in June 2009 after he concluded the threat of digital warfare had outgrown existing U.S. defenses…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/16/us-usa-cybersecurity-attacks-idUSTRE75F5RY20110616
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