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Cyber War Games

ReadWriteWeb reports on some of the damage done to national security interests in 2007:

* The unclassified e-mail of the Office of the Secretary of Defense was hacked
  • * The Department of State had lost terabytes of information
  • * Homeland Security suffered break-ins in several of its divisions
  • * NASA had to impose e-mail restriction before shuttle launches and had allegedly seen designs for new launches compromised
  • * The Department of Commerce was forced to take the Bureau of Industry and Security offline for several months
  • * The White House recently dealt with unidentifiable intrusions in its networks

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Dan Sullivan is a systems architect with 20 years of IT experience that includes engagements in enterprise security, application design, and systems architecture. His experience includes a broad range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, government, retail, gas and oil production, power generation, and education. Dan’s security-related project work has ranged from requirements analysis for enterprise information security to designing and implementing security for database applications and enterprise portals. Dan has written about information security and other enterprise information management topics for Business Security Advisor, DM Review, Intelligent Enterprise, and E-Business Advisor. You can contact Dan at: dan_sullivan@realtimepublishers.net