Forget about the Cold War.

Cyber war promises a greater threat—all

the more so for its insidious invisibility.

When russia invaded Georgia last year,

it simultaneously launched a multi-faceted

cyber attack, bombarding communica-

tion infrastructure and government Web

sites with Distributed Denial of service

(DDos) and other attacks, disrupting com-

puter networks and VoiP phone systems.

As cyber threats escalate and hackers

and terrorists become savvier and more

dangerous, the sole defense a nation can

have is more powerful computers—and

dedicated engineers and researchers.

Within the city limits of Colorado

springs resides one of the nation’s best

options for combating cyber terror—

the university of Colorado at Colorado

springs.

under the tutelage of Chancellor Pamela

shockley-Zalabak, the once-unassuming

university has been steadily and stealth-

ily accruing weapons of defense—though

not the kind that require ballistics or

warheads.

but its weapons are multi-faceted

and complicated.

uCCs has 19 faculty members who spe-

cialize in terror management, data fusion,

network security, algebraic coding theory,

identity management and much more.

in addition, the university is home to

the National institute of science, space

left thousands of daily attacks on federal

and private computer systems in the

united states, have prompted the obama

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