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Charles L. Munns

Digital Government

Another View: Navy's network services buy pays off

A few years ago, network security meant warding off a few viruses and hackers. In al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan, however, our forces found computers containing information on U.S. water systems. As tensions with Iraq rose, so did the threat of cyberattacks. And in 2002, the Federal Computer Incident Response Center tallied 489,912 security incidents, ranging from reconnaissance to denial of services.