Earlier today there was a town hall meeting that reviewed the recent Cyber Storm II excercise. This was a massive simulated computer attack. I was involved in the first Cyber Storm exercise and one of the funniest parts of that was that someone took it upon themselves to return fire. Amusing, albeit counter productive.
From Information Week:
By the accounts of panelists at the RSA Conference in San Francisco who participated in the exercise, the simulated cyber crisis was hugely valuable; they just couldn’t share very much information about what went on.
Detailed information about Cyber Storm II will be made available later this summer in an after-action report, said Greg Garcia, assistant secretary for cybersecurity with the Department of Homeland Security.
It thus came as no surprise when U.S. CERT’s deputy director Randy Vickers acknowledged that the exercise showed there were still some shortfalls in information sharing during the simulated crisis.
Other panelists included Michigan CIO Dan Lohrmann, New Zealand’s managing director of critical infrastructure protection Paul McKittrick, Microsoft senior security specialist Paul Nicholas, and Dow senior information systems manager Christine Adams.
Read on.
[tags]Cyber Storm II, RSA 2008, Defending Computers[/tags]
