Next workweek , for the first time , the public will be capable to see how our government might respond to a full - fledged human action of cyber terrorism , in a simulation that will include top intelligence and security officials .
On February 16 , the Bipartisan Policy Center - hosted event , dubbed Cyber ShockWave , will assemble many top officials in the “ White House situation room”—recreated by set designers in a conference room at the Mandarin Hotel — to respond to a multifacted cyber attempt of which they will have no previous cognition .
The attack , designed by surety expert and embellished by professional scriptwriter ( really ) , will blossom out dynamically throughout the course of the pretence . The participant , let in former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponter and former Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend among others , will have to figure out a course of military action on the tent flap .
The fun part : we ’ll get to see how they do . Though the government has held similar computer simulation in the past tense , this will be the first clip the process will be open to the world . CNN camera crews will be on fix , sprout television that will run in the days travel along .
I ’m funny to see how this mathematical group of citizenry who are , of course , quite intelligent , but also , you know , quite old , react to a full - realise cyber attack . Hopefully they ’ll be able to sieve out their firewall from their Firefoxes . [ The AtlanticviaComputer World UK ]
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