Sunday, February 6, 2011

Cyberwar is coming a business

Cyberwar is not only a more completely serious risk, but also a coming business of capital-size. In the United States is looking for a sponsored IT and defense industry institute the cyber-warriors of the future. The goal: to find underage recruits to 10,000. Hacking Challenges have in the U.S. tradition.

Again and again recruited the FBI and various intelligence agencies their next IT specialists by competition - even in Great Britain is the common practice for years. The Anglo-Saxon "You are what you can" mentality chopping newcomers most likely to be good candidates with formal certificates: Whether you get a job depends, sometimes rather on how fast you can break into a server, as the university certificate.


The SANS Institute, an industry-sponsored company, which operates among other training and education grants, but is also behind the renowned private IT Crisis Support Service Storm Center is now even earlier in the search for talent: As part of the U.S. Cyber Challenge ", the organizers are looking for" 10,000 young Americans with the ability to the ranks of cyber-security experts, researchers and soldiers populate.

But unlike the Challenges of the FBI or NSA are not meant as hackers - the competition is aimed at youngsters in the final stages of their schooling. On the cyber-warriors of tomorrow just do not have to be recruited from collapsing career changers, but supervised by the school and may therefore encouraged to come well qualified.

All promote: parliamentarians, universities, defense firms ... It is therefore important to find viable candidates as early as possible and to convey in adequate training or appropriate employers in the future. The action comes as if it were state - and is probably actually in national interest: It is supported among others by a number of elected representatives.

In addition, act as sponsors, the Center for Internet Security, a nonprofit organization that is supported by numerous institutions and companies, as well as numerous state and business sponsors at universities, large companies such as Cisco or Microsoft, but also the New York State Office of Cyber Security, network operators, IT security firms - and defense contractor Lockheed Martin and the U.S.

Navy, the scholarship is in prospect. Quasi-official blessing given the competition, can participate in the entire school classes and their expected winner prizes, awards and scholarships may, by U.S. politicians. The Senator Thomas Carper, head of the Homeland Security Committee of the Senate and thus the subject of internal security and intelligence agencies connected intimately, dressing sense and purpose of the action in clear words: "To the ever growing challenges of IT security, with which our networked society is confronted, overcome, we must focus on the next generation of Americans to ensure that the skills have to defend our country.

" This makes the Cyber Challenge to what the Army advertising was formerly in school classes - leaving aside the fact that in the cyberwar defense may well take place in banks, power plants and telecommunications companies. Among the most active supporters of the action is Congressman Jim Langevin, vice chairman of the CSIS Commission on Cyber Security of the U.S.

president. Langevin is itself a patron of similar, small suspended school competitions that have made the goal of "a competent workforce to build, which is equal to the task of ensuring the security of our cyber networks, a task which quickly into a national priority is ". To meet this need for skilled cyber-security experts, researchers and warriors, "the 10,000 wealthy young recruits to the SANS investigated, not even from.

As early as 2008, white Langevin, Jim figured GoSL, first Chief of the Information Technology Office of the CIA, this need 20,000 to 30,000 IT professionals. The challenge thrust on America's schools is therefore hardly surprising, since the defect is large, Langevin GoSL quoted in a press release: The top CIA man estimated 2008 that the United States, "not more than 1000 people would have that on the "have advanced security skills to compete at world level can".

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