I think we can all agree that tabletop exercises are a good thing. They allow organizations of all sizes to test their incident response plans without the potentially devastating effects of a real-world cyber attack or intrusion.
As part of my role at Talos, I’ve read hundreds of tabletop exercises for Cisco Talos Incident Response customers, and the knowledge and recommendations contained in each of them are invaluable. No matter how strong your incident response plan seems on paper, there is always something that can be improved, and a tabletop exercise can help your organization identify potential holes or areas of improvement.
But as I was catching up on the news of the past week, I saw that these exercises may be flying too close to the sun — literally.
The U.S. National Science Foundation recently released a study on possible outer space cyberattacks with the help of researchers at the California Polytechnic State University.
The report outlines several possible cyber attack scenarios that could take place in outer space or affect our society’s activities outside of Earth’s atmosphere. One such hypothetical involved adversaries carrying out a distributed denial-of-service attack, disabling electronic door controls on a lunar settlement, trapping the residents inside of a physical structure and locking others out on the unforgiving surface of Earth’s moon.
Researchers behind the report wrote that the hope is these types of scenarios help encourage private companies and the U.S. government to consider the security needs of any activi ..
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