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Feds Building Internet Monitoring Center
By Brian Krebs
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Friday, January 31, 2003; 12:00 AM

The Bush administration is quietly assembling an Internet-wide monitoring
center to detect and respond to attacks on vital information systems and
key e-commerce sites.

The center, which has been in development for the past 15 months, is a key
piece of the White House's national cybersecurity strategy and represents a
major leap in the federal government's effort to achieve real-time tracking
of the Internet's health.

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The "Global Early Warning Information System," (GEWIS, pronounced
"gee-whiz") is being built by the National Communications System (NCS), a
Defense agency established in 1962 to ensure that the government has access
to adequate communications systems during national emergencies. It is
unrelated to the Total Information Awareness program, a planned Defense
Department program that would actively mine databases worldwide to uncover
terrorist and other threats.

The NCS started building the GEWIS system shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks, when it began asking major Internet and
telecommunications providers to sell "real-time" data about the status of
their networks, said NCS Deputy Manager Brent Greene.

The NCS has spent an undisclosed sum of money to buy data from the members
of the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications, an NCS
information sharing group established during the Clinton administration
that includes some the largest telecom and Internet service providers in
the world, including WorldCom, Verizon, Sprint, SBC Communications, Qwest
and BellSouth.

More at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3409-2003Jan30?language=printer

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