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The National Cyber Exercise

2008-02-06 13:29:21 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...Exercise" was a 2006 Homeland Security (and other federal agencies) sponsored simulation of computer and network attacks. Here's the specific detail from a DHS slide deck Provided a controlled environment to exercise State, Federal, International, and Private Sector response to a cyber related incident of national significance Large scale...
 
Tags: cyber, national cyber exercise, exercise, exercise objective, security, exercise results, international, international government participants, security contact
 
 
 
 
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The National Cyber Exercise

2008-02-06 13:29:21 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...Exercise" was a 2006 Homeland Security (and other federal agencies) sponsored simulation of computer and network attacks. Here's the specific detail from a DHS slide deck Provided a controlled environment to exercise State, Federal, International, and Private Sector response to a cyber related incident of national significance Large scale...
 
Tags: cyber, national cyber exercise, exercise, exercise objective, security, exercise results, international, international government participants, security contact
 
 
 
 
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The Cyber Storm II Cyber Exercise

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2008-04-03 12:29:03 by HASH0x8b6d0a8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Exercise aiming to evaluate the preparedness for cyber attacks of several governments two years ago, and pointed out that Frontal attacks could rarely occur, as cyberterrorism by itself wouldn't need to interact with the critical infrastructure, it would abuse it, use it as platform. However, building confidence within the departments...
 
Tags: cyber warfare, passive cyber warfare, cyber warfare tensions, offensive cyber warfare, cyber warfare exercise, warfare, econonomic warfare, cyber warfare attacks, broader information warfare
 
 
 
 
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NSA Attacks West Point! Relax, It's a Cyberwar Game

2008-05-10 01:00:00 by David Axe in Wired Security
 
...Exercise, a training event for future military IT specialists. The exercise offered a rare window into the NSA's toolkit for infiltrating, corrupting or destroying computer networks The 34 Army cadets comprising the West Point IT team operated in a different kind of battlefield, but their combat skills and instincts need to be every bit as...
 
Tags: army university, army, custom-built networks, networks, nsa, army cadets, west, cadets, network
 
 
 
 
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An Option with a Negative Value?

2006-07-28 08:38:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...exercise and make money when "in-the-money". He also has an instant gain even when the option expires worthless due to the initial cash flow. Indeed it is unfair Mathematically, an option value cannot be less than zero as well. (Please correct me if I'm wrong). I've played with several scenarios using the Black-Scholes and Binomial methods...
 
Tags: option, negative option, option seller, option writer sells, option buyer, option position, negative, position, writer
 
 
 
 
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Cyber Storm Details

2008-02-07 14:30:23 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...exercise. Most interesting is the part where the participants attacked the game computers and pissed the referees off: However, the government's files hint at a tantalizing mystery: In the middle of the war game, someone quietly attacked the very computers used to conduct the exercise. Perplexed organizers traced the incident to overzealous...
 
Tags: cyber storm, oversaw cyber storm, game computers, computers, players, overzealous players, information technology, war game, urgent e-mail
 
 
 
 
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Is Microsofts SDL Working?

2008-05-16 11:05:09 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...exercise simply compare the number of public vulnerabilities disclosed for products prior to SDL with similar products developed after SDL. The most recent case was comparing Windows XP SP2 to Vista vulnerabilities in the first year. The count is down and Microsoft provides a quick and easy example of the logical fallacy post hoc ergo propter...
 
Tags: sdl, sdl efforts, sdl effectiveness, microsoft, microsoft surely, specific microsoft platform, effectiveness, effectiveness level, microsoft suggests
 
 
 
 
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Is Microsoft???s SDL Working?

2008-05-16 11:05:09 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...exercise ??? simply compare the number of public vulnerabilities disclosed for products prior to SDL with similar products developed after SDL. The most recent case was comparing Windows XP SP2 to Vista vulnerabilities in the first year. The count is down and Microsoft provides a quick and easy example of the logical fallacy ???post hoc ergo...
 
Tags: sdl, microsoft, sdl efforts, sdl effectiveness, microsoft surely, specific microsoft platform, microsoft suggests, effectiveness, effectiveness level
 
 
 
 
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Someone Should Have Told Them How Switches Work

2008-06-17 15:16:46 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
...exercise, was supposed to give onlookers a rare opportunity to watch a computer hacking job in progress, complete with play-by-play It didnt work out that way, though, thanks to what else? some sort of technical glitch that obstructed efforts to monitor what the competitors were doing. So for the few non-techie spectators who showed up, the...
 
Tags: technical glitch, sniffer trace, stephenson, pesky hackers, programs faculty, story implies, competition set, story, time
 
 
 
 
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Losing Money When There is No Volatilty

2007-01-29 09:40:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...exercise its put into only one share. Instead it had an option on an option, a put option under which it could choose the share on which the option would be exercised. This instrument could be reasonably hedged by an appropriate portfolio of the shares provided volatility remained approximately constant, but it was effectively unhedgeable...
 
Tags: option prices increase, option, option buyer, option writer, investments val