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www.vanguardcanada.com OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 45 the lASt WORD by Valarie FinDlay Thinking and training like the bad guys I say it often: developing a solid cyber security strategy – hardening assets and strengthening cyber security controls – requires "thinking like the bad guys." S imilarly, anyone who has trained in any defensive capa- bility, from arms to systems, will tell you it's critical train for the bad guys; the theoreti- cal operationalization against potential at- tacks using the same gear, in the same sce- narios and in the same environment that you expect to encounter in theatre. For those reasons, simulation and train- ing are fast becoming -critical to the front end of defence and security processes, as well as becoming key areas in the growing and innovative defence sector. Covering combat, unmanned and weapon delivery systems, flight, ship and vehicle simula- tion, advanced warfare training, virtual boot camps and modal platforms, the aim of simulation is to assure operational readi- ness in these diversified "battlefields" to reduce loss and increase success. Basically, developing and testing of analytical models for air, naval and land- based domains in technological simula- tions "prove" the countering of known or probable threats in live, virtual and con- structive simulations. spy vs. spy In cyber warfare, the success criteria for simulation is the effectiveness of defen- sive and offensive countermeasures that prevent infiltration and compromise – the destruction, disruption, modification and theft of assets. Any of these would have a critical impact, but when activated within a motive of espionage, the stakes are much higher. Far more prevalent than acknowledged, espionage has unique impacts – devastat- ing and expensive in the strategic advan- tage in warfare capabilities. The impact of the espionage targeting assets or informa- tion related to strategic responses goes up depending on the actor and their intent. From the numerous breaches of the U.S. Department of Defense in recent decades, it's clear that espionage is ram- pant. As stated in a confidential section of a report 1 prepared by the Defense Science Board for the Pentagon in 2013, more than two dozen major weapons designs systems critical to U.S. missile defence and combat 2 were compromised by cyber spies (see my September 2018 column Implied SimulAtiON TradecrafT and The new View of the simulator room at the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Control Operations (CFSACO). Photo: Sgt Paz Quillé

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