What would happen if there was a cyberattack on the tunnel? This simulation found out

Question for you. What would happen if the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel was hit by a cyber attack? That was the imaginary scenario drawn up at Tuesday's conference called Operation Defend the North. Here's an inside peek. If an incident were to happen, I'm just going to reiterate this is a fictitious exercise. If an incident were to happen, how are we going to handle it? And it's important that every organization has a playbook and they follow that script. but they also have to be able to pivot because you never know what's going to be thrown your way. CyberX has done Defend the North scenarios in the big cities, right? Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary. It's spectacular that they came to Windsor. We're a smaller community. We don't necessarily have all the corporate, you know, checkbooks behind us, but it's great that they came to Windsor, great that they gave us an opportunity to show what we can do. A lot of folks are calling this a cybersecurity conference. I'd take a step back and call it a cyber safety conference you see what happens is when we think about security we think about the door being locked when we think about safety think about somebody trying to break down that door when there's a child on the opposite side you have to be proactive everyone even if they have not experienced it explicitly have experienced some sort of a security incident or a breach to stay more safe understand how you would operate if if things went completely dark. Just like you do a fire drill at home, or should be, do one at home. Do one at your offices. If you can operate with the bare minimum, that's a good starting point. Now, you might ask the question, why are senior security executives so interested in seeing how high school students would respond to a scenario? What can we take from these youngsters to bring into our day-to-day practice as well? I am Lucien. I'm a student at North Star High School. We do have a computer science program at school. We have a tech design program and a com tech program. Going into computer science, I think, and cybersecurity, all those kind of tech courses are going to just get more and more, especially with cybersecurity being that you can't really replace that with AI. It's going to be a good field going forward.