The CSIRT team coordinator has received an information about the data breach and immediately issued instructions for the monitoring team to identify where the attack was coming from. Subsequently, the FW team blocked the communication channels through which the attacker was stealing the data. However, it was not possible to avert the attack \u2026 Fortunately, it is all just a game we prepared.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The world in which we live and work is exposed to an increasing number of hacker attacks that can not only disrupt the system and take control of it but also endanger human lives. Based on the experience gained from real hacker attacks we designed the second game of Guardians 2018<\/a>, which goal was, again, the defense of a hospital.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n One of the many possible ways of preventing hacker attacks is through educational activities for students of IT departments. In a simulated and controlled situation, they can try to defend an IT environment directly under a hacker attack (by white hat hackers). This is the sort of training we provide to our clients, where our team adapts a simulated environment to the realistic image of our client\u2019s IT infrastructure.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n For the Guardians 2018, we have prepared a simulated hospital environment in which six students could test their abilities and experience proper hacker attacks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Hackers were interested in accessing patients\u2019 health records and internal communication between doctors, cracking hospital\u2019s ordering systems and websites and gaining control over smart technology used in the building.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Guardians 2018 consisted of complex attacks without a possibility of direct detection and of so-called \u201cbrute-force\u201d attacks. The students\u2019 role was to block these attacks, analyze them and reveal the source and other details, including weaknesses and vulnerabilities.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nGuardians 2018 as an educational activity<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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