Cadets Trade the Trenches for Firewalls

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 11, 2009

[ Thanks to MJang
for this link. ]

“The cyberwar games at West Point are just one example
of a heightened awareness across the military that it must treat
the threat of a computer attack as seriously as it does an attack
carried out by a bomber or combat brigade. There is hardly an
American military unit or headquarters that has not been ordered to
analyze the risk of cyberattacks to its mission — and to train to
counter them. If the hackers were to succeed, they could change
information on the network and cripple Internet
communications.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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