Posted Jul. 8, 2010

The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. government is starting a program to detect cyber attacks on public and private sector corporations running the nation's infrastructure apparatus:

"The surveillance by the National Security Agency, the government's chief eavesdropping agency, would rely on a set of sensors deployed in computer networks for critical infrastructure that would be triggered by unusual activity suggesting an impending cyber attack, though it wouldn't persistently monitor the whole system, these people said."

Read the full article here.

National Security Preparedness Group