https://www.cyberscoop.com/gridex-cyber-exercise/
By Sean Lyngaas
CYBERSCOOP
November 13, 2019
Every two years, power-grid authorities throw the kitchen sink of digital and
physical mayhem at electric utilities and government organizations across North
America.
It is one of the biggest tests of the utilities’ ability to withstand wave upon
wave of hypothetical attacks — and they are not necessarily supposed to pass
the test.
The GridEx simulation, which begins Wednesday, is “purposely designed to
overwhelm even the most prepared organizations” so they can improve their
resiliency, said Matt Duncan an official at the North American Electric
Reliability Corp., which runs the drill.
Exercise participants won’t need any reminders that, in the last four years,
malicious hackers have cut power for hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine
and caused a petrochemical plant to shut down in Saudi Arabia. GridEx is one
way that U.S. critical-infrastructure companies work to prevent such disruptive
attacks from hitting them.
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