According to The New New Internet, Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has officially opened the firm’s second Security Intelligence Center (SIC) in Denver. The first center was opened in Gaithersburg, Md. in May 2008.
According to Lockheed: “Operated by the Lockheed Martin Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT), these two, fully-integrated facilities serve as Lockheed Martin’s focal points for computer network defense including detection, identification and response to all information security incidents. This is accomplished by bringing together three primary capabilities: pervasive sensors, data management and analyst collaboration.”
“Traditional operations centers often respond to attacks at a micro level, mitigating a specific event at a specific point in time, ” said Anne Mullins, Lockheed Martin’s chief information security officer. “Our Security Intelligence Centers are staffed with cyber intelligence analysts who examine attacks at a macro level – breaking attacks into phases called the ‘kill chain, ‘ analyzing this data to identify patterns of persistent campaigns spanning multiple attacks, and implementing new mitigations to get ahead of the threats.”
