Dress Rehearsal?
InterToobs Undressed
I came home from a long afternoon’s BBQ [the real dealio—12 hours in a smoker. MMmmmmm] last nite to find my browzer “could not find” KisP! Yikes. Then I remembered what I read yest:
Code-named ’Cyber Storm II,’ this is the largest-ever exercise designed to evaluate the mettle of information technology experts and incident response teams from 18 federal agencies, including the CIA, Department of Defense, FBI, and NSA, as well as officials from nine states, including Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia. In addition, more than 40 companies will be playing, including Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical, McAfee, and Microsoft.
...This year’s exercise will feature mock attacks by nation states, terrorists and saboteurs against the IT and communications sector and the chemical, pipeline and rail transportation industries.
Here’s an odd phrase:
At its most basic, organizers say, the exercise tests the strength of relationships and trust between government officials and the private sector companies that control more than 80 percent of the nation’s critical physical and cyber infrastructure.
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