Banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions are banding together to design and build a series of cyber ranges — computer environments where defenders can exercise, train and test tools to defend their real computer networks against online attackers. The initiative, by the Financial Sector Information Sharing and Analysis Council, or FS-ISAC, has already built out the first range and will stage the first exercise on it at the end of November at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, according to Shaun Brady, a consultant with FS-ISAC. “Some will be there physically, others will take part remotely,” Brady told CyberScoop on the fringes of the Integrated Cyber Conference staged by the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab as part of DC CyberWeek. The sector “does a great job with table top exercises,” said Brady, but those are more policy and management orientated. There was a dearth of “hands-on-keyboards” style war games, he said. Eventually, […]
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