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Cyber war games test infrastructure threats

Members of the Red Team, hoping to get ahead in the cyber war game, work together trying to find weaknesses in the Blue Team’s network.

Members of the Red Team,
hoping to get ahead in the cyber
war game, work together trying
to find weaknesses in the Blue
Team’s network.

Cyber terrorists present real threats to our nation’s critical infrastructure, such as power plants and communications networks. A recent training workshop at DOE's Idaho National Laboratory worked to raise awareness about such threats. The five-day event culminated in a 12-hour exercise that provided friendly competition between a Blue Team defending a fictional company's industrial control system against cyber attacks by a Red Team. The Department of Homeland Security's Control Systems Security Program (CSSP) brought cyber security researchers and infrastructure protection specialists from 12 countries to INL for the training. The CSSP and DOE's National Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Test Bed program are scheduled to host eight additional trainings in 2009.

[Sara Prentice, 208.526.9591,
sara.prentice@inl.gov]