Inside The Ring: Cyber war games held

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/12/inside-the-ring-cyber-war-games-held/

By Bill Gertz
The Washington Times
November 12, 2014

U.S. Cyber Command recently conducted large-scale digital war games that 
involved cyberattacks and defense against foreign strikes on critical 
infrastructure.

Cyber Command — led by Navy Adm. Mike Rogers, who is also director of the 
National Security Agency — said in a statement that the exercise “Cyber 
Flag” was “force-on-force” training, “fusing attack and defense across the 
full spectrum of military operations in a closed network environment.”

The drills were held Friday at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and sought 
to gauge military cybercapabilities that will be integrated with other 
war-fighting commands.

Future conflicts are expected to involve cyberattacks against critical 
infrastructure, specifically electrical grids and communications networks 
that can be hacked and shut down or ordered to conduct self-destructive 
operations.

Few details on exercise scenarios were disclosed, in fitting with Cyber 
Command’s NSA-like penchant for secrecy.

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