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The Bipartisan Policy Center has created Cyber ShockWave, a simulated cyber attack on our nation. To defend against this attack, a working group of high-ranking former White House, Cabinet and national security officials will come together. Their mission: to advise the President as the nation grapples with this crisis.

The simulation was developed in partnership with General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, SMobile Systems, Southern Company, Georgetown University and PayPal.

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/events/cyber2010

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Simulated hacker attack to test US government response
Cyber ShockWave involves former administration staff, national security officials

http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-sector/news/index.cfm?newsid=18787

By Jaikumar Vijayan

Security industry analysts and lawmakers will get an unprecedented chance next week to evaluate how the government might respond to a hack attack on critical infrastructure targets.

The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), a Washington-based non-profit established in 2007 by several lawmakers, will host a simulated nation-wide cyber-attack next Tuesday for a group of former administration and national security officials, who will be playing the roles of Cabinet members.
The goal of the simulation, called Cyber ShockWave, is to see how officials in key government positions would react to a real-time cyber-attack, and to evaluate the split-second decisions they may be required to take to deal with it, a BPC alert noted.

Those playing the roles of various cabinet members include former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff, the former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, former White House Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend and former White House press secretary Joe Lockhart.

The participants, none of whom will have any advance information on the simulated attacks, will be expected to advise the President on the unfolding attacks and craft a response to them. The event is scheduled to take place at Washington's Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

A report in The Atlantic said that a considerable effort is being put into making the exercise as realistic as possible.

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2010/02/_recreating_a_s_ituation.php

A production company has been hired to recreate a White House situation room in the Mandarin hotel, and professional scriptwriters will aid security experts in creating the simulated attack.

The whole exercise itself was developed by former CIA director general Michael Hayden and several others, including former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean and Congressman Lee Hamilton, both of whom were co-chairs of the 9/11 commission. Companies and organizations that are participating in the effort include General Dynamics, Georgetown University and PayPal.

This is not the first time that BPC has organized a similar exercise. In 2007, it hosted Oil Shockwave, an oil crisis simulation, in which nine former cabinet and national security advisers participated. The purpose of that exercise was to explore the economic and national security implications of a prolonged crisis in the oil industry.

This month's planned cyber-security simulation comes amid growing concerns over state-sponsored attacks against critical IT assets. The recent hacking attacks against Google and more than 30 technology companies allegedly by operatives based out of China have highlighted what many say is the need for a formal US policy for deterring and responding to such attacks.
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Cyber ShockWave Participants
Michael Chertoff as National Security Advisor
Former Secretary of Homeland Security

Fran Townsend as Secretary of Homeland Security
Former White House Homeland Security Advisor

J. Bennett Johnston as Secretary of Energy
Former Senator (D-LA)

John Negroponte as Secretary of State
Former Director of National Intelligence

Jamie Gorelick as Attorney General
Former Deputy Attorney General

Joe Lockhart as Counselor to the President
Former White House Press Secretary

John McLaughlin as Director of National Intelligence
Former Acting Director of Central Intelligence

Stephen Friedman as Secretary of Treasury
Former Director of the National Economic Council

Stewart Baker as Cyber Coordinator
Former National Security Agency General Counsel

Charles Wald as Secretary of Defense
Former Deputy Commander of U.S. European Command