To Battle Computer Hackers, the Pentagon Trains Its Ow

"We are creating cyber-bodyguards," says Sanjay Bavisi, president of the 

council. "We're not creating combat people." But as the world becomes 
increasingly interconnected via the Internet, the stakes have become too 
high to rely on static defenses alone to protect the immense flows of 
vital information that operate the world's financial, medical, 
governmental and infrastructure systems. "The bad guys already have the 
hacking technologies," Bavisi says. "We can say, 'Tough luck. The bad 
guys play by different rules, and you can't do anything about it, so 
just go lock your doors.' Or we can tell the good guys, 'We will arm you 
with the same knowledge as the bad guys, because to defeat the hacker  

you need to be able to think like one.'"