What is a cyber security attack and defense drill? What's the point?

Offensive and defensive drills, also known as network protection, are practical offensive and defensive activities aimed at real network targets nationwide, aiming at discovering, exposing and solving security problems, and testing the network security protection level and emergency response capability of major enterprises, institutions and subordinate organs in China. So what is a cyber security attack and defense drill? What is the significance of offensive and defensive drills? Please see below for details.

Network security attack and defense drill is an attack and defense drill aimed at obtaining the management authority of the specified target system. The attack team consists of red team experts with rich experience in the field of attack and defense. On the premise of ensuring the stable operation of the business system, an organized network attack is formed by adopting a practical way that does not limit the attack path and attack means. Offensive and defensive drills are usually controlled and auditable actual attacks on the target systems of participating units in a real network environment. It is planned to test the safety protection and emergency response capabilities of participating units through drills to improve the comprehensive prevention and control capabilities of network security.

The organizational structure of offensive and defensive drills is jointly organized by the state, industry authorities, supervision institutions and large and medium-sized enterprises and institutions. Public security organs at all levels, network information departments, government, finance, transportation, health, education, electric power, operators and other national industry authorities or regulatory agencies conduct actual attack and defense drills for attack teams organized by key industries and key systems and defense teams of enterprises in the industry.

Blue Team: Simulate the motivation and behavior of hackers, detect the weak points in the enterprise network, make use of them and expand them deeply, and obtain business data, server control authority and business control authority within the authorized scope.

Red Team: Monitor the attack behavior by means of equipment monitoring, logging and traffic analysis, and respond and deal with it.

Significance of network security attack and defense drills

(1) The essence of attack and defense drills is the confrontation between people. Network security needs network security talents to maintain, which is a contest between white hat and black hat, and white hat is an important resource for building a network power. Attack and defense drills can find network security talents, know their own technical deficiencies, and improve them to enhance security technology.

(2) Conduct offensive and defensive drills, which can discover the problems existing in enterprise network security in advance. Rectify problems in time, strengthen the construction of network security, and enhance the network security protection ability of enterprises.

The value of network security attack and defense drills

① Discover the potential security threats of enterprises: verify whether there are security risks in IT assets within enterprises by simulating intrusion, so as to seek countermeasures.

(2) Strengthen enterprise safety awareness: through offensive and defensive drills, improve the internal cooperative disposal ability of enterprises, prevent the occurrence of risk events, and ensure the high safety of enterprises.

③ Enhance the team's ability: Through the offensive and defensive drills, the actual network and business environment are used as the battlefield to truly simulate hacker attacks, and the defensive side can actually confront the protection process and operation state under the condition of large-scale attacks through the coordinated operations of multiple departments in the enterprise, thus improving the emergency response efficiency and actual combat capability.