The ‘nightmare’ cybersecurity scenario being war gamed by government

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Australia’s busiest airport has been brought to a standstill by a crippling cyberattack. How would business, regulators and law enforcement respond?

“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.”

 

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