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Cyber defense system links labs

DOE laboratories fight off millions of cyber attacks every year, but a near real-time dialog between these labs about this hostile activity has never existed - until now. Scientists at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory devised a program that allows for cyber security defense systems to communicate when attacked and transmit that information to cyber systems at other institutions in the hopes of strengthening the overall cyber security posture of the complex.

"The Federated Model for Cyber Security acts as a virtual neighborhood watch program.  If one institution is attacked, secure and timely communication to others in the Federation will aide in protecting them from that same attack through active response," cyber security officer Michael Skwarek said.

[Jared Sagoff, 630.252.5549,
jsagoff@anl.gov]