Serco launches new cyber attack mitigation training

Serco, the company that manages the Emergency Planning College (EPC) on behalf of the Cabinet Office, has today launched cybX, a unique, powerful and innovative training capability that enables organisations to test and validate their cyber security in a safe, realistic and secure environment. 

Cyber-attack is a growing threat to UK businesses, resulting in the loss of sensitive personal and financial data such as customer records and corporate trade secrets. A recent survey found that 91% of organisations suffer a cyber-attack at least once a year (Kaspersky Lab and B2B International research, Dec 2013), Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) being  particularly vulnerable to  infiltration.

The cybX training system when combined with EPC's expertise and experience in wider organisational resilience training and exercising, offers organisations a first-class, hands-on technical and consequence management training programme against the inevitable cyber-attack.

The cutting-edge system, the first of its kind in the UK, is designed to test both IT staff and management teams  on their ability to identify the nature of a cyber-attack; terminate that attack; manage their organisation's response; and restore systems to the 'new normal'. For each session Serco will create a corporate network in order to provide those taking part with a realistic environment in which to test their skills against a variety of simulated internal and external scenarios. Performance is then objectively assessed leading to a much greater understanding of an organisation's strengths and vulnerabilities, and where improvements can be made.