How is corporate world or retailers fighting back.
Well by playing games!
More accurately playing Game of Threats.
The strategy game is somewhat a mixture of Chess with turned based card game like Magic: The Gathering.
The players of the game are led into a room and split into two groups.
Half of them play as hackers on the offensive.
The other half is the unsuspecting Acme Corporation.
Each side gets playing cards with special abilities.
For example, hackers can send scam emails laced with malware.
But the company can train employees to avoid clicking on fishy emails.
Hackers might use malware to lock employees out of their computers.
But the company can restart its entire computer online grid.
The objective is simple but hard to decide.
What do you do in the situation?
Do you build up your team of experts?
Invest in better cyber security?
Or just continue with present scenario like Sony did?
Any wrong move might let hackers steal your companys valuable intellectual property.
Hence, its war games.
The game penalizes Acme Corp. if it talks publicly too quickly without assessing the facts.
But Acme gets a boost for eventual honesty.
Sound like real life?
Thats why they play as both sides.
Changs, Staples and SuperValu.
Chinese hacker spies took business plans from power plants.
Russian hackers broke into oil and gas companies.
North Korean hackers destroyed computers at Sony Pictures.
PwC may have found some fun way to fight the growing menace of hacking.
But dont expect to play this on your laptop or tablet anytime soon.
PwC is keeping this one for clients only.
source: www.techworm.net
