GCHQ-backed penetration testing lab opens

A 'dirty lab' have been established in Malvern, Worcestershire with the support of GCHQ, to assist businesses stress-test their networks against attacks.

It is administered by the Malvern Cyber Security Group, a partnership of six local computer security companies, on the way to use an analogous tactics and strategies as criminals but with the permission of the authorities.

A BBC News report quoted Dibble Clark, chairman of Malvern-based 3SDL, saying that the lab would help small- and medium-sized businesses tackle the growing problem of cyber crime.

Speaking to Radio 4's The Today Show, Clark said: 'Malware and viruses and other such things, if we'll be using them against many of the systems that we'll be testing, we do not desire to be doing it inside the real world.'

Employing 'ethical hackers', the gang said it's instructing them at the boundaries making sure that cyber crime shouldn't be conducted on the lab.

The report claimed that the ‘dirty lab' has already received interest from businesses, but cyber criminals' unlimited scale of study and development and finance signifies that it's competing against an impressive opponent.