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[FYI] Feds Building Internet Monitoring Center



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3409-2003Jan30.html

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By Brian Krebs
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Friday, January 31, 2003; 12:00 AM

The Bush administration is quietly assembling an Internet-wide
monitoring center to detect and respond to attacks on vital information
systems and key e-commerce sites.

The center, which has been in development for the past 15 months, is a
key piece of the White House's national cybersecurity strategy and
represents a major leap in the federal government's effort to achieve
real-time tracking of the Internet's health.
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The NCS's Greene said the government is taking steps to ensure that the
center does not collect personal information from ISPs. He said ISPs can
use "software tools" to limit the amount of information transmitted to
NCS while still allowing the agency to spot major problems with the
Internet, such as denial-of-service attacks and computer viruses capable
of crippling government and commercial activity online.
(...)


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