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Subject: [ISN] Sandia Draws From Nuclear Science in Inaugurating New Cyber Lab
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2013-02-20 7:11:10
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By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov.com
February 19, 2013
Sandia National Laboratories on Tuesday will inaugurate a cybersecurity center
to perform offensive and defensive warfighting techniques that onsite nuclear
weapons scientists have been practicing for decades.
The Cybersecurity Engineering Research Laboratory, which began operating in
2011, draws from nuclear research and development to test hardware
vulnerabilities in closed facilities and model cyberweapons on supercomputers,
Sandia officials said. Cybersecurity is one of the New Mexico-based lab's
defense systems missions.
"Sandia's cyber R&D capabilities are rooted in our [nuclear weapons] mission,
and specifically weapons use-control engineering and adversarial threat
assessment," said Ben Cook, a senior manager for Sandia's research and
development science and engineering group.
Officials on Tuesday are expected to showcase several of the new lab's
capabilities in deflecting cyberattacks against citizens, businesses and
governments. "Sandia was doing cyber before the term cyberspace existed,"
states the national laboratory's website.
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