Simulated Hack To Test US Government Response 73
superapecommando writes "Security industry analysts and lawmakers will get an unprecedented chance next week to evaluate how the government might respond to a hack attack on critical infrastructure targets.
The Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington-based non-profit established in 2007 by several lawmakers, will host a simulated nation-wide cyber-attack next Tuesday for a group of former administration and national security officials, who will be playing the roles of Cabinet members."
Use it as cover! (Score:3, Interesting)
So when a real hack happens at the same time, we don't react?
Simulated? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Use it as cover! (Score:5, Interesting)
yes and no.
I did a simulated data disaster at Comcast a decade ago. but I informed only one important key person that I was going to cause a very real data loss event in the billing system. I would back thing up myself, but the backups that IT were running I would silently fail for a WEEK before the event.
at the event horizon I deleted the SQL database, the SQL team yawned and went to restore the database.... Oh crap nothing to restore but week old backups....
They shit themselves and we let them panick for a good hour before we walked in and asked...
What do you mean? you check your backups of critical data daily dont you? how about vertifying the validity of those backups? when was the last time you did a test restore on a backup server to make sure it was right?
I knew they were not backing it up or testing, I used that to my advantage to scare the hell out of them in hopes of getting what I have been telling them for a year through their skulls.
It also proved my point to the IT director that his "teams" were NOT ready for this.
I'll bet you $1000.00 they STILL dont test the backups, and rarely check to see if they are running.
Chinese Sub (Score:5, Interesting)
Does anyone remember this event happening?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-492804/The-uninvited-guest-Chinese-sub-pops-middle-U-S-Navy-exercise-leaving-military-chiefs-red-faced.html [dailymail.co.uk]
Yes, that really happened in real life. It also happened in Tom Clancy's book "Executive Orders". Let me summarize the headline for you real quick, The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced
...So who's to say something similar won't happen this time, except in cyberspace? Imagine, in the middle of a simulated hack, the Chinese government actually hacks our systems during a military exercise. Knowing what we know now, it's not improbable.