May 24, 2002

Cadets Guard Computer Systems in Network-Defense Exercise

By MICHAEL ARNONE

Students at the United States service academies and the Naval Postgraduate School are learning firsthand the challenge of protecting computer networks.

Last month, the students sparred with computer-security experts from the U.S. military and government in the second annual Cyber-Defense Exercise, sponsored by the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency.

For four days, 30 cadets and graduate students defended networks they had built against attacks by experts from

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