“We haven’t seen the sort of massive disruption to services that we all rely on,” she says.
“When an incident like this happens in real life we need a plan in place that’s exercised rather than thinking it through for the first time.”Facilitating the exercise was Joe Smith, a senior official at the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre, a government entity set up to protect Australian critical infrastructure assets.In reality, Sydney Airport is running smoothly.
“If you think about an airport that can’t move people through it for a period of seven hours, you suddenly end up with literally hundreds of people at the airport with nowhere to go – that’s a massive people management problem.”