Nato, the joint European-US defence
force, has taken delivery of intrusion
detection technology to protect its business and battlefield
communicationsnetworks against cyber
attacks.
The £4.2m system, supplied by
Telindus, identifies attacks, their nature and origin, and what
the attackers might do in response to a defensive or restorative
action.
So far Nato has secured 70 systems running on an integrated
voice, data and video conference network in 12 countries. In the
following phases there will be more countries, more sites, more
nodes, and a network upgrade, said Nato.
"The main tasks are prevention, detection, reaction and
recovery. Putting them together and handing it over on time and on
budget took skills that crossed the domain between networks and
IT," said Luc Hellebooge, Telindus's defence unit director.
Nato has sharpened its attention on cyberdefence following
events such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the May 2007
distributed denial of service attack on Estonia.
Nato's contract with Telindus, signed in 2005, includes
engineering and design, implementation, logistics and quality,
proof of concept and roll-out, testing, acceptance, training and
equipment sourcing.