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Homeland Security

GD Develops Cyber Threat Test Tool for Friendly Systems

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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

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General Dynamics [GD] has developed the Network Exploitation Test Tool (NETT), which provides a cyber threat test on friendly force systems for vulnerability analysis and system evaluation. Additionally, NETT enables more robust data capture to help in the wiring of more detailed and accurate reports, John Callahan, project manager for NETT, tells our sister publication Defense Daily in a recent interview. One aspect of NETT provides a read team threat to a system to make sure that that system is…

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