NCS Prepping 'gee-whiz' Pilot

28/09/2002 Written by Adam Chalemian

The National Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Sys­tem is in the early stages of a Global Early Warn­ing Infor­ma­tion Sys­tem (GEWIS) pilot project in which gov­ern­ment and indus­try will exam­ine the health and topol­ogy of the Internet.
The pilot project will assess how well crit­i­cal areas of the Inter­net are per­form­ing world­wide, and then use that data to notify gov­ern­ment, indus­try or U.S. allies of an impend­ing cyber­at­tack or pos­si­ble dis­tur­bance, said Bren­ton Greene, deputy man­ager of NCS.

Those indi­ca­tors will include look­ing at the per­for­mance of selected gov­ern­ment and indus­try e-​commerce sites, as well as tools to iden­tify and detect worms or denial of ser­vice attacks, he said, adding that the pilot project (also called the Global Cyber Early Warn­ing Infor­ma­tion Sys­tem) will not be ready for launch until next year.