(Business Week) Gwen Ackerman - Twice a week about 200 Israeli high school students in seven separate locations meet after school for six hours of extra classes. The students ace two exams to qualify for the extra tutelage, which is taught by veterans of the Israel Defense Forces. The students are training to become the best cyberwarriors in the world. Israel's government networks are among the most highly attacked anywhere, with daily assaults numbering in the tens of thousands. "[Iran is] conducting a brazen campaign of cyberattacks against everyone - against Israel, against the United States. This is the unseen attack, but it's felt and it will be felt more and more," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Feb. 18. The high school program teaches the students to perform such tasks as containing a wild computer virus in what's called a "cyber-sandbox" so they can learn how to tame it. For their final project, the teenagers must set up a virtual orchestra by connecting terminals to a central computer that acts as the conductor, assigning instruments and melodies to different terminals.
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