http://allthingsd.com/20130617/coming-to-wall-street-this-month-quantum-dawn-2-cyberwar/
By Arik Hesseldahl
All Things D
June 17, 2013
If anything seems a little off on Wall Street later this month, you can
blame the cyberwar.
Or rather the simulated cyber attack exercise dubbed Quantum Dawn 2. As
reported by Lauren Tara LaCapra at Reuters, it’s an exercise that will run
through most of the business day on June 28, simulating a significant
cyber attack against several Wall Street banks.
Organized by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, it
will involve numerous banks, including Citigroup and Bank of America, the
U.S. departments of Treasury and Homeland Security, the Federal Reserve
and the Securities and Exchange Commission. At least three executives from
each participating organization will take part.
It will start off at first with some seemingly random bursts of confusing
information, followed by a pause that will give execs a chance to make
decisions. Later on, it will accelerate, and conditions will appear to get
a lot worse.
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