Cyber Storm II is Just Around the Corner
Saturday, March 8th, 2008Yes, even the government gets to play video games and get paid for it.
The Cyber War Games is an extremely high-tech extremely complex cyber security setup developed by the National Cyber Security Division of the Department of omeland Security. They’ve been working on it for more than a year and costing more than USD $6 Million.
The world-wide simulation will be used to test the skills of entrants, including the Department of Defence, FBI, CIA, CISCO, Microsoft, and many countries from around the world in an extremely securely-connected environment. The participants join one of the two groups, Planners, who set up the exercises, or Players, who participate in the events by trying to break into the simulation networks and obtain information.
There will be many traps along the way that will throw the players off the trail. The designers will be active throughout the week-long event, injecting into the system in attempt to thwart the contestants with situations unknown to the players.
This project / event is to help benchmark how well cyberterrorism and security interact, as well as to learn how to develop more-secure networks.
