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2010-02-16 17:19:53 | |
| The cyber war simulation aims to prepare the United States in the event of an actual large-scale cyber attack against the nation. | |
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At the initiative of the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), several former high ranking officials of American agencies and some IT corporations conducted today an elaborate cyber war-game. The operation lasted for three hours and a 'questions and answers' session was planned to follow. It will be presented on CNN next Saturday and Sunday.
The whole operation follows previous simulations that were also prepared by the BPC and Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) in 2007. At the time, they tested the United States' responsiveness to a major oil crisis with the Oil Shockwave simulation. Now that a major concern of Obama's administration is the threat of a serious cyber attack against the country's infrastructures, Cyber Shockwave "will provide an unprecedented look at how the government would develop a real-time response to a large-scale cyber crisis affecting much of the nation." In this simulation, former agents of the CIA and other government agencies take up the roles of high-ranking advisors and security officers in a reproduction of a White House room. They react to a surprise cyber attack scenario and must make the "split-second decisions [that] must be made to respond to an unfolding and often unseen threat." As stated on the BPC's Web site, "former senior administration officials and national security experts participating include:
The actual level of this kind of threat is pretty hard to evaluate, but the past couple of months have shown that private and governmental groups hold the means to perpetrate cyber attacks of significant scale. Hacks such as Advanced Persistent Threats, which are the kind of attacks used against Google in December 2009, are a constant threat for the governmental, military and private sectors. But could they really cripple a whole country? That may be an overstatement. But a simulation of this type can at least give somewhat of a little hindsight on the subject. As a final note, it should be added that this initiative is 100% private. The government of the United States was not involved in this simulation. | |
Reference 1: http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/news/press-releases/2010/02/cyber-shockwave-hits-washington-updated-participants
Reference 4: http://bipartisanpolicy.org/events/cyber2010
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