Sandia Draws From Nuclear Science in Inaugurating New Cyber Lab

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http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2013/02/sandia-draws-nuclear-science-inaugurating-new-cyber-lab/61379/

By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov.com
February 19, 2013

Sandia National Laboratories on Tuesday will inaugurate a cybersecurity center 
to perform offensive and defensive warfighting techniques that onsite nuclear 
weapons scientists have been practicing for decades.

The Cybersecurity Engineering Research Laboratory, which began operating in 
2011, draws from nuclear research and development to test hardware 
vulnerabilities in closed facilities and model cyberweapons on supercomputers, 
Sandia officials said. Cybersecurity is one of the New Mexico-based lab’s 
defense systems missions.

“Sandia’s cyber R&D capabilities are rooted in our [nuclear weapons] mission, 
and specifically weapons use-control engineering and adversarial threat 
assessment,” said Ben Cook, a senior manager for Sandia’s research and 
development science and engineering group.

Officials on Tuesday are expected to showcase several of the new lab’s 
capabilities in deflecting cyberattacks against citizens, businesses and 
governments. "Sandia was doing cyber before the term cyberspace existed," 
states the national laboratory's website.

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