Cyberwar effort: success!

[Megiddo]

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCLL9f4onvY

We won the exercise, at least among the graduate level schools. We might have lost to USAFA (undergrad)... but we're not sure.

In any case, it was a whole lot of work for relatively small amounts of excitement. They could get malware on our workstations just fine (gray cell does anything they're asked to), but all Internet-bound traffic was required to go through our authenticated proxy, so they could never get malware to call back to HQ.

[Megiddo]

Forgot to mention that my responsibility was implementing IPSec on the network. It was interesting how many things I got blamed for... from making the computer's too slow to BSOD'ing them to "breaking everything". Only about 25% of the time it was actually an IPSec-related issue.

We were effectively using IPSec as a host-based firewall, though an actual firewall software would have worked a lot better (IPSec is not meant to be used this way).

[MrPresident]

Sweet! I'm actually looking to join the Cyber Warfare command for the Army. It's probably one of the fastest growing commands especially with the wars ending.

[Megiddo]

Odd how each service is standing up their own cyber command when we already have an entire branch dedicated to cyber command, though.