-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 11/08/02 Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 09:29:31 -0600 From: "NIPC Watch" <nipcwatch@private> To: "Information Technology" <information_technology@private> November 6, Information Week - Piecing together huge security network. The national-security network being floated in Washington might piggyback on dozens of smaller networks. The National Guard's 3,000-node, coast-to-coast network - GuardNet-could be the cornerstone of a proposed interstate communications network for sharing security information among various levels of government, Homeland Security Office CIO Steve Cooper told IT industry execs this week. "By linking what exists, we can move a lot faster," Cooper said. He's referring to the network as an information expressway. The proposed communications system would string together some existing defense networks with those used by state and local governments. It would include networks used by law-enforcement, criminal-justice, and first-responder agencies. Source. http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021106S0002 November 7, Associated Press -Experts have made an important change to the 13 computer servers that manage global Internet traffic, separating two of them to help better defend against the type of attack that occurred last month. Verisign, which operates two of the root servers, moved one computer overnight Tuesday to a different building in an unspecified location in northern Virginia and onto a different part of its network, company spokeswoman Cheryl Regan said Wednesday. Verisign said the change was designed to ensure that a hardware outage or focused attack targeting part of its network could not disrupt both servers. The last such move to any of the 13 servers occurred in 1997. Source. http://www.govtech.net/news/news.phtml?docid=2002.11.07-3030000000028145 _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv http://listserv.infragard.org/mailman/listinfo/information_technology
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