Military / DoD

Cyber Exercises

You might be familiar with the traditional Cyber Defense Competition (CDX). The CDX was established several years ago and is run between the various service academies. The exercise puts cadets against a team of Red Cell hackers drawn primarily from the NSA. Of particular note is that the exercise is defense-only and team scored. Since its creation, White Wolf Security has been involved with the CDX in various forms. We have the ability to score the team and the individual, as well as offensive and defensive capabilities.

We now offer a complete line of cyber exercises designed for the military:

1. Siege: As one of the few offense-only exercises we test you on your ability to compromise systems.
2. Covert: Another offense-only exercise. In this exercise the goal is to compromise as many systems as possible without tripping "alarms".
3. Gauntlet: This defense-only exercise tests your team’s ability to defend an existing network from a directed and concerted attack.
4. MANTA: (Multiday Active Network Tactical Assault) This multi-day capstone exercise tests a broad range of skills. Your team will be responsible for around the clock offensive and/or defensive operations. The goal of this exercise is simply survival; but it will teach you things not typically found in traditional cyber exercises. The focus is not only on technical skills, but team leadership, management and performance under stress while operating with reduced tools or personnel.
5. CCPE: the Combined Cyber/Physical Exercise. The first one of its kind; this exercise tests your team’s physical and computer attack/defense skills. Your team must physically traverse several physical obstacles protected by various network-enabled security devices. In other words: in order to breach the door, you better have some good hackers. (This exercise is currently under development)

Cyberwar Law and Policy

Contrary to current wisdom, we do not need new laws to execute combat operations in cyberspace. Combat is combat. The sphere within which you are fighting and the tools you are using does not alter this fact. We conduct various training sessions that address the realities of combat in cyberspace and focus on using existing legal, doctrinal and operational frameworks as opposed to creating new ones. Within this context, operations in cyberspace become clear, focused and easily managed.

Cyber/Physical Convergence

Technology is closing any gaps between the physical world and the cyber world. Some believe that cyberspace ‘knows no geography’. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The computer you are reading this on resides in real space. The cable transmitting the signal or the wireless access point you are using also resides in real space. A better description would be that cyberspace makes it easy to cross known geographic boundaries. Likewise, the ever growing field of embedded operating systems, bluetooth, and other devices is pushing physical data (surveillance, geolocation, etc) across IP data networks.

White Wolf Security works with you to see the efficacy of approaching military operations from a combined or integrated point of view. With combined operations, you increase mission flexibility without sacrificing mission lethality.