Exercises

Delta Risk's partners and consultants have extensive expertise in all aspects of exercise design and execution for cyber defense and infrastructure protection. Our goal is to build each client's capacity by starting with smaller tabletops and working toward more complicated live-fire exercises. Our world-class expertise in live-fire exercises means we will help our clients create tightly controlled games on live networks. Not only is this less expensive than purpose-built or virtual ranges, but more realistic for the defenders.

We eschew hackfests in favor of a methodology of an "opposing force" that will think and act like the advanced, persistent threat. Our CEH- and CISSP-certified team will give your defenders realistic opportunities to detect these attacks, using tools from your own operations centers. Some of our attacks may be detected ... others not. Your forensic analysts can have machines and sophisticated artifacts to examine. Your incident responders will have novel situations to unravel. Even your security guards and administrative assistants will need to be alert to social engineering and ruses.

Delta Risk also has unparalleled capabilities to craft exercises which emphasize national security issues, rather than technical details. Our staff includes two former members of the White House Security Council Staff (including a full member of the Council on Foreign Relations) to forge scenarios raising the most serious questions of cyber security and cyber warfare, from deterrence to state responsibility and thresholds for responding with cyber and/or physical force.

Delta Risk's team also has world leaders in infrastructure protection, especially public-private sector partnerships and the finance sector. We can coordinate exercises or help clients develop goals and scenarios for their own games.

Update: Delta Risk Assistance to FS-ISAC

Washington, D.C. and New York. February 2010.

Delta Risk is assisting the Financial Services ISAC on their recent "Cyber Attack Against Payment Processor" exercise, run over three days for financial institutions, payment processors, the retail sector, and business and government. Delta Risk is using our deep knowledge of the finance sector and exercises to analyze the thousands of responses to understand trends and lessons learned.

Update: DECIDE Project Funded by Congress

Washington, D.C. October 2009.

The Cyber Conflict Research Consortium has just received several million dollars from DHS Science and Technology directorate to develop DECIDE, a decision and risk modeling simulation to support cybersecurity for the financial sector. Delta Risk has been instrumental in the requirements process and helping the Consortium--an educational research alliance--understand financial sector decision making and information infrastructure.

Update: ccTLD Training for Asia

Seoul, South Korea. October 2009

Delta Risk team members have just finished training attack and contingency response to Internet top-level domain operators from across Asia, for ICANN and in conjunction with the Asia Pacific Top-Level Domain Association.