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Firm aims to protect military from viruses
From: William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 12:58:37 -0500
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cth934.htm SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - Describing battlefields where software will be as important as fighter jets, officials with the company that built the B-2 stealth bomber say they will develop defenses against computer programs designed to disrupt military electronics. ''Unfortunately, in this era of increasing reliance on computers, and particularly on links between computers, there are more and more opportunities for conspirators to invade and corrupt systems,'' said Kent Kresa, Northrop Grumman's chairman and chief executive officer. Kresa made his comments Wednesday during the company's annual stockholders meeting in Santa Monica. He said the company's Logicon division in Herndon, Va., is working to help the military detect intrusions and recover critical data in real time - a concept called ''information resiliency.'' [...] *-------------------------------------------------* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC --------------------------------------------------- C4I Secure Solutions http://www.c4i.org *-------------------------------------------------* ISN is sponsored by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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