"How to train for your next security crisis: Let the" Topic

…wargames begin

"There are two questions that keep security personnel up at night: How will the next attacker breach our organization? And how well will we perform when it happens?

Usually, you find out the answers only after an incident happens. So how do you answer these questions before any damage is done, and how do you ensure that your incident response team can provide their best possible answer when called upon?

The answer is to gain what Matthew B. Caffrey, coordinator of wargaming at the Air Force Material Command, calls "synthetic experience." By this he means simulating attacks within the context of a wargame. Running through scenarios that are expected to occur in the future and then going through the processes and practices to deal with them allows you and your staff to gain experience in how to respond to a crisis. When a real incident happens, they've already been through it many times before…"

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