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Chertoff: Exercise Planned For Einstein Upgrade To ‘Shoot Down’ Cyber Attacks

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Friday, December 19th, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford A future version of the Einstein cyber-assault-monitoring system that may be able to "shoot down" attacks on federal government computers will be tested in the coming months, the outgoing Department of Homeland Security secretary said yesterday. DHS is deploying a second iteration of its Einstein cyber-assault-monitoring system, which unlike the first version can conduct real-time detection, and is working on a third version that also could block malicious network activity, Director Michael Chertoff said at the end…

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