PRESENTATION: "All singing all dancing" Cyberstorm II -- Steve Stroud, Attorney General's Department
Thu, 05/22/2008 - 12:53
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In this quick AusCERT presentation, the Australian Attorney General Department's Steve Stroud talks about Cyberstorm II -- the global cyber war game. Cyberstorm is a full-scale war game involving governments and private sector organisations from Canada, USA, Australia, Britain and New Zealand. It's designed to test the resilience of our infrastructure under a full blown cyber attack.
As you'll hear, most organisations didn't follow their incident response plans during the exercise -- they were too busy putting out spot fires to notice the whole house was on fire.
I had a chance to meet Steve Stroud during the planning in the US for Cyberstorm II and was pretty impressed by him and all of the other folks from Australia and New Zealand who were there. I think that the Australian government (at least the part I got to talk with) "gets" incident response and has a pretty good grip on how vulnerable critical infrastructure is...
I really wish I could have taken Steve's offer to come down to visit during the exercise - but I have this little thing called a day job and that wasn't going to pan out.
Glad to see folks got benefit out of the exercise.
-Martin Fisher
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