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Real storms delay DHS' Cyber Storm

Wilson P. Dizard III writes in GCN.com:

The Homeland Security Department’s Cyber Storm exercise, consisting of a virtual attack on the nation, has been pushed back from November to February 2006 because of resource demands on the federal government and infrastructure damage caused by the recent hurricanes in the Gulf Coast region, the department and other sources said.

DHS spokeswoman Michelle Petrovich confirmed that the Cyber Storm exercise had been pushed forward from next month to February. “It makes sense to work on real-time occurrences such as hurricanes Katrina and Rita [before carrying out the exercises],” she said.

“It would be fair to say that the storms required a reallocation of resources, [but] all efforts to move forward with Cyber Storm are continuing,” Petrovich added.

posted by Fergie @ 10/19/2005 07:16:00 AM