On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 10:11:10AM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
Many exercise designers could use help coming up with useful Internet disaster sub-plots. Bad enough to inject stress into the exercise, but not extinction.
All ISP tech support agents are infected, and become brain eating zombies.
We call that "Tuesday". ---rsk p.s. On a more serious note, disaster exercises that include partial failures of emergency response infrastructure are often quite challenging. As I write this, the IT infrastructure of Baltimore is down due to a ransomware attack. As a consequence, while 911 is functional, fire department computers are down. If a significant event requiring BCFD happened tonight, it would be challenging for them to coordinate a large-scale response.