In a secret cyber war game, whose details and final results remain confidential, hackers from the military service were totally crushed by opponents from the civilian sector.


One Capitol Hill staffer that attended the exercise, which took place in a secret compound at Fort Meade, Maryland, said that the active-duty team was “pretty much obliterated,” and that they “didn’t even know how they’d been attacked.”

US Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) started operating in 2010 and is currently training about 6,000 soldiers for protecting the Department of Defense networks from intrusions, as well as for running offensive operations to disable enemy systems.

The civilian sector team was composed of IT security specialists who face real-world threats. It seems that the experience of real scenarios is far more valuable, as hackers have to deal with actual advanced threats that need to be squashed.

“The guys and gals who work day jobs in suits and ties — or tie dyes and blue jeans — a lot of them have real-world experience in cyber that is far and above the limited skills that ... regular military people have,” Navy Times quoted Matthew Aid, a technology and intelligence expert.

Initially, CYBERCOM drew a plan mixing 80% active-duty personnel and 20% civilians.

Arnold Punaro, chairman of the Reserve Forces Policy Board (RFPB), said that “it defies common sense to think that industry, in particular our high-tech industries, are not moving at light speed compared to the way government works,” and the results of the cyber war game confirmed that.
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