CIAS opens last phase of cyber-terrorism exercise
(Sept. 15, 2003)--The UTSA Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) today begins the last phase of a massive year-long exercise that helps local infrastructures test and improve their response to cyber-terrorism.
The exercise, dubbed "Dark Screen," is hosted by CIAS in partnership with city, county, state and federal agencies, as well as military and local businesses.
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RSS FeedsParticipants in Phase Three of Dark Screen include Bexar County, the City/County Emergency Operations Center, Bexar Metro 9-1-1, SBC Communications, the City of San Antonio, San Antonio Water System, City Public Service, the State of Texas, Bexar Metropolitan Water District, Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Air Intelligence Agency and more than a dozen other municipalities that make up the greater San Antonio metropolitan area.
"This is an education process as well as an exercise," said Jim Jorrie, CIAS exercise director. "We continue to explore the relationships between information systems vulnerabilities and critical infrastructures to create a better security posture."
"By the end of the exercise, we hope to have developed an exercise model that can then be used in other cities across the nation. We're also discussing the development of a Dark Screen lessons learned training curriculum for security and infrastructure personnel in other local agencies," Jorrie added.
The Dark Screen exercise was first proposed by Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, as a way to test and strengthen the San Antonio-area abilities to detect and respond to a cyber-terrorism attack.
CIAS is designed to leverage San Antonio's infrastructure assurance and security strengths and to bolster research and educational initiatives in the field. The multidisciplinary research center is a partnership between academia, the information technology security industry and the local Air Intelligence Agency and aims to address the technical and policy issues of information assurance and security.
The center supports research in the College of Sciences, the College of Engineering and the College of Business.
For more information, contact Lynn Gosnell at 210-458-4550.