From: secedu@all.net Reply-to: secedu@all.net Organization: Information Security Educators Mailing List Subject: Information Security Educators Mailing List 1999-01-16 
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 07:33:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Fred Cohen 

Sandia National Laboratories - California Site - has intiated a program
by which students taking courses in information protection can gain
experience with real-world attacks and defenses while at the same time
helping to characterize and build improved defenses against tools used
to attack computer systems and networks.

The "Colege Anti-Crackers" program provides access to Sandia's HEAT
computer network which contains more than 70 computers whose sole
purpose is cyber attack, defense, and analysis.  Students who are taking
classes from authorized institutions are granted access for supervised
experiments with off-the-Internet attack tools.  The results are
published to the Internet in the form of standard descriptions of
attacks, detection and differentiation techniques, and patterns for
pattern-based intrusion detection systems.

For more information, please contact isler@sandia.gov
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