Another Drill: Quantum Dawn 2 will test Wall Street's cyber readiness

[Cheryl Nelson]

With the talk of the banking system going down as a red flag to martial law, now this.

https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9240859/Quantum_Dawn_2_will_test_Wall_Street_s_cyber_readiness?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2013-07-17

Computerworld - Starting at around 8.30 a.m. ET Thursday and continuing through Friday morning, dozens of major Wall Street firms will come under a series of massive cyberattacks aimed at crippling financial services networks around the country.

Fortunately for the firms -- and their customers -- the attacks will simply be a drill, codenamed Quantum Dawn 2. The effort is designed to test cyber incident response and coordination capabilities within the U.S. financial services sector.