Major Contractors Teaming Up To Confront Cyber Security Challenges

Lockheed, Intel, Others Team Up To Tackle Cyber Challenges -- Aviation Week/Reuters

Five U.S. technology companies, including top weapons maker Lockheed Martin Corp and chip maker Intel, plan to team up to tackle “grand challenges” in cyberspace amid growing concerns about computer security.

The non-profit research consortium, to be known as the Cyber Security Research Alliance (CSRA), will also include Advanced Micro Devices, Honeywell International and EMC Corp’s RSA Security division as founding members.

The consortium will coordinate industry research and work closely with government to develop “break-through technologies” to improve cybersecurity, said its president Lee Holcomb, a senior executive at Lockheed’s information systems and global solutions division.

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My Comment: They can see the future contracts .... but they are late to the game.

Major Contractors Teaming Up To Confront Cyber Security Challenges

Lockheed, Intel, Others Team Up To Tackle Cyber Challenges -- Aviation Week/Reuters

Five U.S. technology companies, including top weapons maker Lockheed Martin Corp and chip maker Intel, plan to team up to tackle “grand challenges” in cyberspace amid growing concerns about computer security.

The non-profit research consortium, to be known as the Cyber Security Research Alliance (CSRA), will also include Advanced Micro Devices, Honeywell International and EMC Corp’s RSA Security division as founding members.

The consortium will coordinate industry research and work closely with government to develop “break-through technologies” to improve cybersecurity, said its president Lee Holcomb, a senior executive at Lockheed’s information systems and global solutions division.

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My Comment: They can see the future contracts .... but they are late to the game.

Major Contractors Teaming Up To Confront Cyber Security Challenges

Lockheed, Intel, Others Team Up To Tackle Cyber Challenges -- Aviation Week/Reuters

Five U.S. technology companies, including top weapons maker Lockheed Martin Corp and chip maker Intel, plan to team up to tackle “grand challenges” in cyberspace amid growing concerns about computer security.

The non-profit research consortium, to be known as the Cyber Security Research Alliance (CSRA), will also include Advanced Micro Devices, Honeywell International and EMC Corp’s RSA Security division as founding members.

The consortium will coordinate industry research and work closely with government to develop “break-through technologies” to improve cybersecurity, said its president Lee Holcomb, a senior executive at Lockheed’s information systems and global solutions division.

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My Comment: They can see the future contracts .... but they are late to the game.

Iran's Government To Disconnect From The World Wide Web

Iranian State Goes Offline To Dodge Cyber-Attacks -- The Telegraph

Iran is to move key ministries and state bodies off the worldwide internet next month in an effort to shield them behind a secure computer wall from disruptive cyber attacks like the Stuxnet and Flame viruses.

Reza Taghipour, the country's telecommunications minister, said the step was being taken because sensitive intelligence was vulnerable on the worldwide web, which he said was untrustworthy because it was controlled by "one or two" countries hostile to Iran.

"The establishment of the national intelligence network will create a situation where the precious intelligence of the country won't be accessible to these powers," Mr Taghipour told a conference on Sunday at Tehran's Amir Kabir University.

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My Comment: For most Iranian bureaucrats and officials, I guess this means no more surfing for porn on government computers.