A while back I taught a week-long class for aspiring hackers, a war room of sorts with attack and defend scenarios, points tallied for successful exploits, and stuff like that. We balanced the war room with plenty of classroom and lecture time. One of the questions raised by the students, directed at a visiting law enforcement head during a lecture, was, "How prepared would the U.S. be for a large-scale cyberattack?" The answer: "Not at all."
This was a couple years back. Since then we're seeing the accelerated ramp-up of U.S. defenses against potential cyberattacks, complete with a raft of new legislation. Conversely, headlines are starting to pop up about attacks with "state-sponsored fingerprints" all over them. We've seen attempts at cooperation across national lines to track agile, cross-border criminals. Companies are ramping up their defenses and wrestling with their security posture and policy to fight things like advanced persistent threats (APT) and other emerging threats. So, let's say we posed the same question again, two years later: How would the United States do in a large-scale cyberattack?"
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