Spanish Civil War 1930’s Déjà vu and today’s cyber experiments on critical infrastructure.

Had a very productive training and tabletop exercise during my Center’s organized week-long event in Kiev, Ukraine. For more info on what we did in Kiev see ( https://enseccoe.org/en/events/268/tabletop-exercise-coherent-resilience-2017-core-4/details ) (1) I will share some of the “take-aways” from this week long event which included the participation of Ukrainian government, energy sector operators and private […]

Simulations don’t have to be expensive or labor intensive in order to explain key concepts about IT and ICS security

It can be hard to understand amidst all the IT biased (towards Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of information) cybersecurity hoopla how today’s IT threats emanating from cyberspace can affect industrial control systems. IT security questions can be hard to understand for the ICS practitioner (who leans towards different security priorities of Safety, Availability, Integrity and […]

Seeking to Develop Exercises That Test Response Capabilities to Any Threat & Add Value

Conducting an exercise can be a very useful tool for testing policies, procedures and actions of institutions for dealing with a perceived threat scenario. It offers the advantage of providing an idea of what would really happen if the worst was to happen without doing any real damage. It can provide answers to questions without […]