EU’s biggest cyber test a success

2012-10-10

Helen Martin

Virus Bulletin, UK

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

European banks, information security agencies and governments participate in Europe’s biggest cyber security test.

Earlier this month, a number of European banks, information security agencies and governments got together to participate in Europe’s biggest cyber security test.

Cyber Europe 2012 was a day-long simulated cyber security attack on Europe’s critical infrastructures, co-ordinated by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). The exercise was designed to assess how governments and private sector organizations (including approximately 60 banks and 60 ISPs) would cooperate in the event of a large-scale attack.

Initial findings showed that there was frequent cooperation and information exchange between public and private sector organizations, although the public-private cooperation structure differed from country to country. A full report on the exercise is due for release by the end of the year.

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