An Inside Look At Israel's National Cyber Command Center

 

CNN: We know who is attacking us and we know how to get even, says Israel's cyber defense chief 

Be'er Sheva, Israel (CNN)In a nondescript office park in the desert town of Be'er Sheva, a "war room" filled with screens showing various maps, rolling information, and graphics inform around a dozen or so staffers, manning computers at the central heart of Israel's civilian cyber defense system. 

So important is their mission that the room where they track cyberattacks 24 hours a day, seven days a week, is itself a bomb shelter -- meaning even if rockets are raining down, their work does not stop. 

On some of the screens, maps of the world show what look like missiles originating in the United States and Europe heading toward Israel. 

They're not actual bombs, but instead, indications that a cyberattack, either originating -- or more likely -- being spoofed to look like it's coming from those locations, is targeting Israel's civilian infrastructure.  

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WNU Editor: I would not be surprised if most cyber command centers around the wolrd are modeled like Israel's.  

Update: This is troubling .... Israel's Pegasus maker probes reports its spyware targeted US diplomats (AFP).