Wargaming

The story goes that when President Nixon’s team fed military data into a computer to find out when they would win the Vietnam War, they were informed that they had already won five years earlier.

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Although it is a tale of dubious authenticity from a time when automated data analysis was in its infancy, reliable simulations are an important part of strategy. And that pertains as much to armed combat as to cybersecurity.

 

But, unlike its military counterpart, cybersecurity simulations have largely been left languishing in the Nixon era. That is to say, they are still nonexistent for most businesses.

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Now, that situation is finally starting to change. And, to the chagrin of cyber criminals worldwide, technology is simulating possible cyber attacks before the actual perpetrators even get a chance.

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