Sunday, May 10, 2009

Cybersecurity: the Future of Warfare

Check out this article on West Point's efforts to train the next generation of Army officers in cybersecurity. Very interesting and relevant stuff.
When the military deploys in a combat zone or during a domestic emergency, establishing a secure Internet connection is an early priority. To keep things humming, the military’s experts must fend off the ordinary chaos of the Internet as well as attacks devised to disable the communications system, like flooding e-mail servers with so many junk messages that they collapse.

2 comments:

  1. Have you read Ender's Game or any of the Orson Scott Card sci-fi books?

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  2. I read all the Ender's Game series as a teenager. Great stuff. I haven't read any of the Ender's Shadow series that came out later.

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