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Europe hosts its biggest ever cyber security exercise

  • 30 October 2014
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by Dave Neal  30 Oct 2014 

 European cyber security agency Enisa is today hosting a 24-hour continent-wide security assessment with the help of 200 firms and 400 cyber security professionals.
Enisa, or the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security, has dubbed the exercise Cyber Europe 2014, and has pulled in support from national Certs (Computer Emergency Response Teams), internet service providers, energy companies and telecoms firms.
Praising the international cooperation at the heart of the initiative, European Commission VP Neelie Kroes said: "The sophistication and volume of cyber-attacks are increasing every day. They cannot be countered if individual states work alone or just a handful of them act together.
 
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Another article with some more information.
 

Largest EVER Europe-wide cybersecurity exercise

By Jennifer Baker and John Leyden, 30 Oct 2014 
"The bi-annual event* simulates a lifelike attack, modelled on real events, to test the reaction of national Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTS), government ministries, telco companies, energy companies, financial institutions and internet service providers.
But Steve Purser, Head of Operations at ENISA explained: “The biggest threats we really see are not attacks, but hardware and software failures.”
#CyberEurope2014 will simulate more than 2,000 separate cyber-incidents, including denial of service attacks, website defacements, exfiltration of sensitive information and attacks on critical infrastructure."
 
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