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DoD Creates a Test Range for Cyberspace
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has set up the Information Assurance Range (IAR) as a simulation of the Global Information Grid, as well as a virtual training ground for DoD cyberpersonnel and a testbed for new information assurance and network defense technologies. Among the IAR's offerings is a virtual Internet capability comprised of both benevolent and malevolent websites. The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency says that scripted threats and live red team assaults can be launched from the virtual Internet into the IAR's Global Information Grid environment.
The IAR simulates an operationally realistic setting by using tools such as the Systems Administrator Simulation Trainer, which functions as an architecture for constructing applications to describe and produce network behavior. One of its capabilities is the A Network Traffic Synthesizer (ANTS) tool suite, which can model the behavior of individual users on a network and track overall network traffic, describe attackers and generate their behavior, and describe and supply Internet or local LAN services.
The IAR's capabilities will be upgraded in fiscal 2011 to include a public-key interface, control access cards, a classified environment, wireless capabilities, and voice over IP.
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