Is this because it's known that a recession is on the horizon, and most likely from a cyber attack? Staggeringly, almost 40% of industrial control systems and critical infrastructure faced a cyber attack in the second half of 2016. Action is being taken to mitigate a major cyber attack. These exercises are designed to immerse participants in simulated cyber attack scenarios such as denial of service attacks, website defaces and data breaches. A recession caused by a cyber attack is a very real scenario and unless countries remain proactive with cyber security, we may be unfortunate enough to learn our lesson the hard way.

Source: Forbes January 06, 2019 00:00 UTC