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Prepping for a Cyber Pandemic: Cyber Polygon 2021 to Stage Supply Chain Attack Simulation – Planned Crisis for Digital ID Mark of The Beast

by mosesman

  • Prepping for a Cyber Pandemic: Cyber Polygon 2021 to Stage Supply Chain Attack Simulation
    by Tim Hinchliffe, The Sociable 7 February 2021, via https://www.globalresearch.ca/
    Will Cyber Polygon 2021 be as prophetic as Event 201 in simulating a pandemic response? perspective
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    The World Economic Forum (WEF) will stage another cyber attack exercise as it continues to prep for a potential cyber pandemic that founder Klaus Schwab says will be worse than the current global crisis.
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    The SolarWinds hack served as a wake-up call to the supply chain attack vulnerabilities still present in public and private organizations, and it served as a warning that the next breach could be exponentially worse in spreading through any device connected to the internet.
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    Following up on last year’s Cyber Polygon cyber attack exercise and event aimed at preventing a digital pandemic, the WEF has announced that the 2021 edition will be taking place on July 9.
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    “A cyber attack with COVID-like characteristics would spread faster and farther than any biological virus” — World Economic Forum
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    This year, Cyber Polygon 2021 will simulate a fictional cyber attack with participants from dozens of countries responding to “a targeted supply chain attack on a corporate ecosystem in real time.”
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    According to the WEF, COVID-19 was known as an anticipated risk, and so is its digital equivalent.
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    What’s more, “A cyber attack with COVID-like characteristics would spread faster and farther than any biological virus. Its reproductive rate would be around 10 times greater than what we’ve experienced with the coronavirus.”
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    “It is important to use the COVID-19 crisis as a timely opportunity to reflect on the lessons of cybersecurity community to draw and improve our unpreparedness for a potential cyber pandemic” — Klaus Schwab
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    Here, we take a look at three trends emerging from Cyber Polygon 2020 to uncover what moves the public and private sectors may make in anticipation of a digital pandemic. But first, where did the notion of a cyber pandemic come from?
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    An Anticipated Cyber Pandemic
    In his welcoming remarks at Cyber Polygon 2020, WEF Founder Klaus Schwab warned about a coming “cyber pandemic” that would be worse than the current global crisis. “We all know, but still pay insufficient attention to, the frightening scenario of a comprehensive cyber attack, which would bring a complete halt to the power supply, transportation, hospital services, our society as a whole,” he said. “The COVID-19 crisis would be seen in this respect as a small disturbance in comparison to a major cyber attack.”
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    Schwab added,
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    “It is important to use the COVID-19 crisis as a timely opportunity to reflect on the lessons of cybersecurity community to draw and improve our unpreparedness for a potential cyber pandemic.” As the digital world encroaches on our physical and biological worlds, an effective cyber attack could compromise anything connected to the internet, including:

    • Medical devices that keep people alive
    • The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem of connected devices that run smart homes (i.e. cameras, microphones, sensors, etc.)
    • The Internet of Bodies (IoB) ecosystem of digitally-connected humans
    • Global financial systems
    • Energy grids
    • Water treatment facilities
    • Government IT systems
    • Military and defense infrastructure
    • And more

    Currently, “The only way to stop the exponential propagation of a COVID-like cyber attack threat,” according to the WEF, “is to fully disconnect the millions of vulnerable devices from one another and from the internet.”
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    1) Governments Will Inevitably Move Towards Digital Identity Schemes
    Speaking at Cyber Polygon 2020, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair stated with confidence that governments are “absolutely, inevitably” moving in the direction of digital identity adoption.
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    “Digital ID for me is a very big part of the future” — Tony Blair
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    Video: Cyber Pandemic: “Crisis Coming Bigger than Covid” 
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    Digital identity is a major component of the WEF’s great reset agenda as it relates to transformative technologies powering the Fourth Industrial Revolution. A digital identity keeps a record of everything you do online, including what you share on social media, the websites you visit, and your smartphone’s geolocation, and it can house all of the credentials you would normally find in a physical wallet, such as your driver’s license, insurance card, and credit cards.
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    In his talk, Blair didn’t make the case for why having a digital identity was actually necessary to prevent a cyber pandemic, but rather that digital identities would be an inevitable part of the digital ecosystem, and so governments should work with technology companies to protect and regulate their use.
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    “Digital ID for me is a very big part of the future,” said Blair.
    “Inevitably, governments are going to move in this direction — absolutely, inevitably,” he added.
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    “And so what I think’s most important is that we from the political side wake-up to the potential of technology and engage with the changemakers inventing the technology, so that we understand it and can regulate it sensibly and not stupidly.”
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Image Source: World Economic Forum

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