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Cyber Shock Wave

Summary: CNN aired "Cyber Shockwave," an edited presentation of a four-hour war-game exercise held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington D.C., designed by former CIA director Michael Hayden and sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center, built on a scenario of a cell phone, Internet and power grid meltdown. Cisco Talos argues the participants responded with federal powers - quarantining cell phones, nationalizing power and telecom companies, extraordinary renditions - rather than anything driven by the mechanics of a cyber threat.

Key Takeaway: The article's closing point is that technology won't save you and people will, so the work is to build trust networks with peers at other organizations in your vertical before an attack, even when those peers are your competitors.

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