Business and Security in a Wired World. Center for Strategic Leadership Issue Paper, Volume 07-02
Abstract
This seminar examined the concepts of cyber terrorism, cyber crime, and information infrastructure attacks and fostered an improved understanding of the increasing exposure of U.S. business organizations as targets of terrorism. The relationship of government and industry in identifying and mitigating critical infrastructure vulnerabilities was examined, and existing, proposed, and alternative cooperative strategies were reviewed. Panels included presentations from the U.S. Commission on National Security (also known as the Hart-Rudman Commission); the Defense Information Systems Agency, the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, and several leaders in industrial security who described initiatives designed to mitigate risk, safeguard information, and protect infrastructure. A crisis exercise was conducted that was designed to draw upon the information provided by the panel experts and examine key aspects of policy implementation, legislative involvement, information sharing, stakeholder expectations, incident response and recovery, and organizational culture. The scenario posited cyber attacks accompanied by physical attacks on two major U.S. corporations that were followed by the convening of an inter-governmental, inter-agency response team in New York City. The game also posited an industry-government Joint Crisis Team (JCT), an operational response entity modeled on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Federal Response Plan, that put both industry and government resources at the disposal of responders. These four teams (two industry teams and two government teams) grappled with the problems generated by the scenario and interacted with each other, formally and informally, throughout the exercise. Lessons learned include the identification of key organizational and procedural gaps and seams in dealing with cyber terror and information infrastructure attack.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 2002
- Accession Number
- ADA423953
Entities
People
- Dennis Murphy
Organizations
- United States Army War College