The European Union will Thursday the Cyber Europe 2012 exercise. In the simulation 400 public sector organisations, telco’s, carriers and banks to create a large-scale ddos attack, the response and cooperation to the test.
It is the first time banks and internet companies throughout the EU to participate in an exercise in which a cyber attack is being simulated, according to Neelie Kroes, vice-president of the European Commission. In the simulated ddos attack are more than 400 experts from banks, telecommunications companies, internet service providers and local and national government agencies concerned. It is not known to which organisations exactly. The EU has about 1200 ‘separate cyber incidents, including more than 30,000 e-mails that during the ddos attack on the experts to be fired.
The simulation is ring-fenced infrastructure is rotated, but the effects on the performance of actual critical systems mimicking. Size and complexity of the exercise, are many times larger than in the previous test, which in 2010 was held. “If this is a real attack had been, would services for millions of citizens and businesses across Europe has been disrupted hit and would be there for millions of euros damage to the European economy must be done”, claims the European Commission.
The Cyber Europe 2012 exercise held by the European Network and Information Security Agency. The goal of the test is according to that organization for the procedures and information flows between cooperating public organisations in the EU to the test. In addition, the test problems in the approach of large-scale security incidents bring to light.
“Cooperation is of the utmost importance, as cyber-attacks becoming more and more sophisticated. The core of the exercise which today is held, is co-operation at European level in order to ensure that the internet and other essential infrastructure to keep upright,” said Kroes. The European Commission intends before the end of the year a comprehensive strategy for cyber security present.