(WASHINGTON, DC) – Rick Perry discussed an upcoming
announcement on Thursday that the Energy Department and an outside institution
will be launching cyber war games focused on defending the grid and infrastructure
from hackers.
The Cyber Defense Competition will work with national labs
on setting up a red team versus blue team scenario where “one group will be
attacking infrastructure and the other will be defending against it,” Perry
said Thursday at a forum hosted by the Consumer Energy Alliance.
The red team/blue team competition “breeds excellence” at a
time when real threats face the U.S. on the cybersecurity front.
He said he just got done shooting a video with the outside
participants in the exercise, and that the competition will be announced soon.
Cyber defense is bipartisan: Perry said the issuing of
defending infrastructure from attack extends across both aisles. “Efforts in
this area is truly bipartisan,” he said. It is “tantamount to the future of
this country” that all sides come together, he continued.
“These are changing time in a very challenging moment,”
Perry said.
