The CERT Coordination Center at Pennsylvania's Carnegie Mellon University has developed two unique pilot programs designed to bolster the information assurance capabilities of government agencies. . . .
The CERT Coordination Center at Pennsylvania's Carnegie Mellon University has developed two unique pilot programs designed to bolster the information assurance capabilities of government agencies.

The number and sophistication of cyberattacks against U.S. government systems have increased in recent years, but the refinement of the individuals initiating them has decreased, which makes it even more difficult for agencies to differentiate a high school hacker from an extended, coordinated intrusion attempt, said John McHugh, senior member of the technical staff at the CERT Coordination Center (CCC) at Carnegie Mellon.

Speaking May 2 at an Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association information technology conference in Quantico, Va., McHugh said the basic idea is to make sure that cyber intruders can't take out all the systems all the time since "survivability is the mission-centric notion of information assurance."

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