DISA seeks detection system

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http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0401/news-disa-04-01-02.asp

By Diane Frank 
April 1, 2002

The Defense Information Systems Agency last week announced plans to
work with GRC International Inc. to develop a system to help detect,
analyze and defend against cyberattacks across Defense Department
networks.

In a March 27 notice, DISA officials said the department needed a
system to "monitor and analyze the immense amounts of computer traffic
and detect the missions of hacker attacks and denial-of-service
attacks launched against DISA's Global Information Grid daily." The
grid includes unclassified and classified DOD networks worldwide.

Numerous individual defense organizations already have
intrusion-detection systems on their networks, but DOD has only just
begun integrating such protection across the department.

Integration allows officials to recognize more complex attacks after
looking at data across multiple units, said Becky Bace, former head of
the National Security Agency's Computer Misuse and Anomaly Detection
research program.

For the same reason, the General Services Administration's Federal
Computer Incident Response Center is working with the CERT
Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University to develop a similar
analysis and correlation capability for civilian agencies, said Sallie
McDonald, associate commissioner of information assurance and critical
infrastructure protection at GSA.

Officials from DISA and GRC International could not be reached for
comment.



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