News of two cybersecurity efforts undertaken by the United States government surfaced Friday. One is the Defense Industrial Base Cyber Pilot, in which the U.S. Department of Defense, partnering with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will share classified threat information and the knowledge of how to use that with participating members of the U.S. defense industry. The other is the National Cyber Range, a project overseen by DARPA in which a scale model of the Internet will be built to test futuristic security scenarios and carry out war games.
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DARPA Builds Cyberwarfare Proving Ground
Posted by: Richard Adhikari June 17, 2011 12:05 PMNews of two cybersecurity efforts undertaken by the United States government surfaced Friday. One is the Defense Industrial Base Cyber Pilot, in which the U.S. Department of Defense, partnering with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will share classified threat information and the knowledge of how to use that with participating members of the U.S. defense industry. The other is the National Cyber Range, a project overseen by DARPA in which a scale model of the Internet will be built to test futuristic security scenarios and carry out war games.