JERUSALEM, Israel Government on Monday (31/12) night, inaugurating a national program to train young people aged 16 and 18 years for cyber wars in the future in the military and intelligence services. The launch program was not separated from the growing threat from Iran.
"The threat of cyber attacks against Israel came from Iran and other elements," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement at the inauguration ceremony in the city of Ashkelon Beach. "The system is important we came under attack, and this will increase as we enter the digital age. We will enhance our ability to address all of these threats and build digital defense system Iron Dome," he said. Iron Dome missile defense system is used the Israeli Air Force.
Israel National Bureau of Maya (INCB), an institution founded Netanyahu earlier this year, the ability to operate a three-year program, designed to develop expertise in the field of cybernetics and computers among high school students who stand out from the poor. "The program was created with the basic principle that Israel has a high-quality human capital and the notion that the development will meet the needs of security and fostering economic growth and social development," the statement said. He added that the military, security services and the Ministry of Education to support the project.
Cyber security has become a national priority in Israel in recent years, and an important resource grown on protecting military and civilian computer networks that use the country as well as in energy production plant.
In a rare interview published last December in the daily Yediot Aharonot, the Shin Bet (Israeli security services), disclose cyber unit SIGINT had foiled "a number of Iranian attacks against computer networks a strategic country for three years." By "increasing threat of such" cyber warfare program for youth is the latest of a series of ideas aimed at placing and recruiting what the military as "cyber warriors".
In the face of their lack of human resources, recruiters in the military, have been deployed to search for the young hackers among Jewish communities around the world that have the potential to be an expert cyber war. The purpose of these activities is to persuade the young hackers fills a lucrative position in the private sector and move to Israel, according to Yediot Aharonot reported in November.
"It's clear that the demand for soldiers in the field is only a matter of time. This is why we are looking for solutions, not only here but abroad," said a senior officer told the paper
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