DOD and Cybercom Want to Train for Realistic Cyberattacks
From: FedTech
The Defense Department wants to create a program that will help prepare the department to respond to complex and sophisticated attacks on critical infrastructure.
The Department of Defense and many other agencies pour billions of dollars into cybersecurity technology investments to prevent such attacks. Yet DOD and U.S. Cyber Command officials say that there is currently no training program designed to imitate sophisticated attacks and help federal cybersecurity professionals prepare for them — and there likely won’t be until 2018 at the earliest.
Without such a program — which DOD calls a “persistent training environment”— the department will be unable to adequately prepare for what a massive, real-world cyberattack will look like.
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