IDG Contributor Network: You'll start to see a lot of hack games hosted on the public cloud. Here's why, or rather, how
LightCyber, whose specialty is active breach detection, is holding a 12-hour long hack game (or hacker simulation challenge) on Nov. 10, 2015.
The challenge is to hack through a mythical small health care company's simulated corporate network environment to access the 10,000 or so patient medical records.
LightCyber is playing it close to the chest with the details, but Shruti Bhat, director of product marketing for Ravello Systems, the company that is providing the cloud platform for the hack game, tells me some basic assumptions can be made about what participants will see when they click to begin. It is the replica of a small healthcare provider's data center environment, so at minimum they can probably count on a multi-node configuration with a database, app servers and a load balancer.
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