Sounds expensive.
So, you know those exciting movie-style 3D visual cyber attack ops centres?
Airbus has been awarded a contract worth £1.4m to "develop and mature" a movie-style 3D Virtual Cyber Centre of Operations (VCCO) for the Ministry of Defence. The research contract engages Airbus to develop a "3-D virtual world to enable collaboration and shared situational awareness," across a sprawling network of security …
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Tuesday 24th March 2015 11:34 GMT Sproing
It'll be used by bean counters
Having been involved in getting Highly Immersive Visualisation Environments up and going ( basically three high resolution projectors giving you a curved screen roughly the size of the local cinema ), you find that the main use is not for the display of spiffy, multi-coloured spinny super-shiny graphics, but for spreadsheets.
Apparently it's all about the number of cells on display.
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Tuesday 24th March 2015 11:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
Big and flashy, or useful?
A friend who works for a large anti-virus firm and told me they had a big nasa-type control room full of impressive map displays showing outbreaks, but it was only used when the journalists dropped by.
The real work was done a level below in an electronically hardened bunker by people working with the command line and disassemblers. Good.
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Tuesday 24th March 2015 23:16 GMT Anonymous Coward
What will be hillarious will be when some kids with the technology support equivalent of changing the lightbulb to go to red alert on 5th user p200 laptops but a whole boatload of low level knowledge about os innards give the newly cyber defended systems a good kicking.
Love to be a fly on the wall with lots of charged up civil serpent types with a budget of millions who recruited all their mates because thats how things work all running round shouting buzzwords vs some kids with a old laptop.
Anon but whats the real point nowadays, I want to go do something honest like play piano in a whorehouse instead of working in IT security nowadays anyway.