Maverick joins Army for network security

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/1016/web-infowar-10-19-00.asp

BY George I. Seffers
10/19/2000

The Army will use a new product from General Dynamics Electronic
Systems for testing network vulnerabilities and for training soldiers
to respond to cyberattacks.

General Dynamics delivered the product, dubbed Maverick, on Oct. 17.
The company bills Maverick as "the first commercially available
Internet security software to combine Internet reconnaissance and
Internet attack capabilities."

The contractor funded development of the product jointly with the Army
Communications-Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, N.J., under a
dual-use science and technology program.

The product is designed to help users identify network security flaws,
to evaluate information system performance while under cyberattacks
and to respond to attacks in a controlled environment.

Maverick hosts network reconnaissance tools used to locate network
security holes in computers, operating systems, applications and
security devices. It also includes a suite of scripted attacks
commonly used by cyber intruders, but users can also add their own
attack scripts, according to a General Dynamics source.

"If an organization says its networks are as secure as Fort Knox, my
question is, "How do you know?" said John Stewart the companys
president. "General Dynamics can answer that question by exposing
networks to controllable tests run by professionals with world-class
credentials."

The product runs on personal computers or laptops running Microsoft
Corp.s Windows 2000 and can test any operating system that can
communicate over the Internet.


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