Is the spread of cyber weapons akin to the proliferation of nuclear weapons after World War II?
Thu, May 14, 2009 — Network World — If there’s a sudden cyberattack on the U.S. Navy, Jim Granger could be among the first to know since it’s his job to keep watch. “We monitor the Navy’s grid,” says Granger, who is director of capabilities and readiness at the Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command in Norfolk, Va., home to the Naval Network Warfare Command. Granger works with a team of cyber-defense operations specialists in a security operations center, hunkered down behind computers to keep an eye on networks the Navy uses — such as the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet — both on land and at sea. Panel Calls for National Dialog on Gov’t Cyberattacks Policy Issues Surround U.S. Government’s Mounting Cyberattacks Distributed intrusion-prevention and firewall sensors send real-time data to be analyzed by what the Navy calls its Prometheus system, which includes the Novell Sentinel security event management system and SAS data management tools. There are hundreds of thousands of alerts each d
