{"id":4951,"date":"2023-08-16T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2023-08-16T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T17:57:08","slug":"from-event-201-to-cyber-polygon-the-wefs-simulation-of-a-coming-cyber-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4951","title":{"rendered":"From \u201cEvent 201\u201d to \u201cCyber Polygon\u201d: The WEF\u2019s Simulation of a Coming \u201cCyber Pandemic\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, the World Economic Forum teamed up with the Russian government and global banks to run a high-profile cyberattack simulation that targeted the financial industry, an actual event that would pave the way for a \u201creset\u201d of the global economy. The simulation, named Cyber Polygon, may have been more than a typical planning exercise and bears similarities to the WEF-sponsored pandemic simulation Event 201 that briefly preceded the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-80.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-4952\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-80.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-80.png 1024w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-80-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-80-770x404.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-80-293x154.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-80-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, the World Economic Forum (WEF), along with Russia\u2019s Sberbank and its cybersecurity subsidiary BI.ZONE&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sberbank.com\/news-and-media\/press-releases\/article?newsID=a05b1950-213f-404e-a4c2-a39fbb41a879&amp;blockID=7&amp;regionID=77&amp;lang=en&amp;type=NEWS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced that<\/a>&nbsp;a new global cyberattack simulation would take place&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/projects\/cyber-polygon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this coming July<\/a>&nbsp;to instruct participants in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sberbank.com\/news-and-media\/press-releases\/article?newsID=a05b1950-213f-404e-a4c2-a39fbb41a879&amp;blockID=7&amp;regionID=77&amp;lang=en&amp;type=NEWS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">developing secure ecosystems<\/a>\u201d by simulating a supply-chain cyberattack similar to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/another-mega-group-spy-scandal-samanage-sabotage-and-the-solarwinds-hack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent SolarWinds hack<\/a>&nbsp;that would \u201cassess the cyber resilience\u201d of the exercise\u2019s participants. On the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyberpolygon.com\/about\/%23link-s181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">newly updated event website<\/a>, the simulation, called Cyber Polygon 2021, ominously warns that, given the digitalization trends largely spurred by the COVID-19 crisis, \u201ca single vulnerable link is enough to bring down the entire system, just like the domino effect,\u201d adding that \u201ca secure approach to digital development today will determine the future of humanity for decades to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exercise comes several months after the WEF, the \u201cinternational organization for public-private cooperation\u201d that counts the world\u2019s richest elite among its members, formally announced its movement for a Great Reset, which would involve the coordinated transition to a Fourth Industrial Revolution global economy in which human workers become increasingly irrelevant. This revolution, including its biggest proponent, WEF founder Klaus Schwab, has previously presented a major problem for WEF members and member organizations in terms of what will happen to the masses of people left unemployed by the increasing automation and digitalization in the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New economic systems that are digitally based and either partnered with or run by central banks are a key part of the WEF\u2019s Great Reset, and such systems would be part of the answer to controlling the masses of the recently unemployed. As others&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dUb66PZ5EgY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have noted<\/a>, these digital monopolies, not just financial services, would allow those who control them to \u201cturn off\u201d a person\u2019s money and access to services if that individual does not comply with certain laws, mandates and regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WEF has been actively promoting and creating such systems and has most recently taken to calling its preferred model \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2021\/01\/klaus-schwab-on-what-is-stakeholder-capitalism-history-relevance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stakeholder capitalism<\/a>.\u201d Though advertised as a more \u201cinclusive\u201d form of capitalism, stakeholder capitalism would essentially fuse the public and private sectors, creating a system much more like Mussolini\u2019s corporatist style of fascism than anything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, to usher in this new and radically different system, the current corrupt system must somehow collapse in its entirety, and its replacement must be successfully marketed to the masses as somehow better than its predecessor. When the world\u2019s most powerful people, such as members of the WEF, desire to make radical changes, crises conveniently emerge\u2014whether a war, a plague, or economic collapse\u2014that enable a \u201creset\u201d of the system, which is frequently accompanied by a massive upward transfer of wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent decades, such events have often been preceded by simulations that come thick and fast before the very event they were meant to \u201cprevent\u201d takes place. Recent examples include the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/2020\/01\/investigative-series\/how-government-and-media-are-prepping-america-for-a-failed-2020-election\/\">2020 US election<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crimson-contagion-trump-administration-ran-pandemic-simulation-months-before-coronavirus-hit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19<\/a>. One of these,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/event201\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Event 201<\/a>, was cohosted by the World Economic Forum in October 2019 and simulated a novel coronavirus pandemic that spreads around the world and causes major disruptions to the global economy\u2014just a few weeks before the first case of COVID-19 appeared. Cyber Polygon 2021 is merely the latest such simulation, cosponsored by the World Economic Forum. The forum\u2019s current agenda and its past track record of hosting prophetic simulations demands that the exercise be scrutinized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though Cyber Polygon 2021 is months off, it was preceded by Cyber Polygon 2020, a similar WEF-sponsored simulation that took place last July in which speakers warned of a coming deadly \u201cpandemic\u201d of cyberattacks that would largely target two economic sectors, healthcare and finance.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyberpolygon.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cyber Polygon<\/a>&nbsp;2020 was officially described as \u201cinternational online training for raising global cyber resilience\u201d and involved many of the world\u2019s biggest tech companies and international authorities, from IBM to INTERPOL. There were also many surprising participants at the event, some of whom have been traditionally seen as opposed to Western imperial interests. For example, the person chosen to open the Cyber Polygon event was the prime minister of the Russian Federation,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikhail_Mishustin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mikhail Mishustin<\/a>, and its main host, BI.ZONE, was a subsidiary of the Russian-government-controlled Sberbank. This suggests that the overused \u201cRussian hacker\u201d narrative may be coming to an end or will soon be switched out for another boogeyman more suitable in light of current political realities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aside from Mishustin, WEF executive director Klaus Schwab and former UK prime minister Tony Blair participated in the Cyber Polygon 2020 event, which is due to be repeated annually and bears many similarities to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vm1-DnxRiPM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2019\u2019s Event 201<\/a>. Rather than preparing for a potential medical pandemic, Cyber Polygon 2020 focused on preparing for a \u201ccyberpandemic,\u201d one that mainstream media outlets&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/02\/08\/the-next-cyberattack-is-already-under-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">like the&nbsp;<em>New Yorker<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;claim is \u201calready underway.\u201d Given the WEF\u2019s recent simulations, powerful billionaire business owners and bankers appear to be poised to use both physical and digital pandemics to reform our societies according to their own design and for their own benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-architects-of-cyber-polygon\">The Architects of Cyber Polygon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Russian cybersecurity firm BI.ZONE, 120 organizations spread over twenty-nine countries took part in the two scenarios that were simulated at Cyber Polygon 2020, with as many as five million people allegedly having watched the livestream in over fifty-seven countries. Like many events that took place in 2020, the Cyber Polygon simulations were conducted online due to COVID-19 restrictions. Together with the World Economic Forum, BI.ZONE, a subsidiary of Sberbank, manages the Cyber Polygon project. Sberbank\u2019s largest shareholder, as of last year, is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2020\/04\/10\/russian-government-completes-28b-sberbank-swap-a69940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Russian government<\/a>, and it is thus&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euromoney.com\/article\/27ut8lwuuchq1d82xzf28\/banking\/the-euromoney-25\/sberbank-russias-big-state-bank-has-outsize-tech-ambitions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">often described<\/a>&nbsp;by English-language media outlets as a state-controlled bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2020 event was launched with an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyberpolygon.com\/gallery\/video\/%23V_xbFjdXjz0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">address from<\/a>&nbsp;the prime minister of the Russian Federation Mishustin, who has a history of courting Western tech companies prior to entering politics. In 1989, Mishustin graduated from Moscow State Technological University (generally known as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/STANKIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stankin<\/a>) with a qualification in systems engineering. During the 1990s, he worked at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/world\/russia\/mishustin.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Computer Club<\/a>, a nonprofit organization with the goal of \u201cattracting Western advanced information technologies\u201d to Russia. Between 1996 and 1998, Mishustin was the chairman of the board of the ICC, but the company was liquidated in 2016. Between 2010 and 2020, he served as head of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nalog.ru\/eng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federal Taxation Service<\/a>&nbsp;of the Russian Federation. Even though he had never shown any previous political ambitions, on January 16, 2020, he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2020-12-28\/kremlin-s-new-man-mishustin-will-keep-us-guessing-in-putin-s-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was appointed<\/a>&nbsp;prime minister of the Russian Federation by an executive order issued by President Putin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During Mishustin\u2019s welcoming remarks at the WEF\u2019s Cyber Polygon 2020, the Russian PM warned of the need to create public policy to \u201cstrengthen the digital security of critical activities without undermining the benefits from digital transformation in critical sectors that would unnecessarily restrict the use and openness of digital technology.\u201d The statement suggests that \u201cunnecessary restrictions\u201d could become seen as necessary in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mishustin goes on to explain that Russia\u2019s post-COVID economic recovery will be based on the \u201cincreasing digitalization of that economy and government,\u201d adding that \u201cwe will drastically increase the number of available digital public services and introduce fundamentally new support measures for digital businesses.\u201d He also stated that \u201cRussia has developed a common national system for identification and the prevention of cyberattacks with the government agency\u2019s information systems linked in the system.\u201d He also addressed the Cyber Polygon audience about the international community needing to come together to prevent a \u201cglobal cyberfraud pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sberbank.com\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sberbank<\/a>, the largest Russian banking institution and former Soviet savings monopoly, which was originally founded by Nicholas I, was an official host of the Cyber Polygon 2020 event alongside the World Economic Forum. As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/2021\/01\/23\/sberbanks-second-pirouette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported in the&nbsp;<em>Economist<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;in January 2021, the Russian banking giant has begun to reimagine its business in an effort to become a consumer-technology giant. Sberbank has spent around $2 billion on technology and acquisitions, including the acquisition of internet media group Rambler, which it fully acquired in 2020. As late as December 30, 2020, Sberbank acquired&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/doma-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Doma.ai<\/a>, which&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.doma.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describes itself<\/a>&nbsp;as \u201ca convenient real estate management platform.\u201d On June 15, 2020,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/investforesight.com\/2gis-and-sberbank-close-their-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sberbank bought 2GIS<\/a>, a map, navigator, and business directory with over 42 million monthly active users. , eleven as the lead investor, include some of the most used services in Russia, and its clear intention is to become a one-stop digital shop for all services. The bank also became the owner of one of the largest data-processing centers in Europe when the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.geoclima.com\/portfolio-item\/sberbank-mega-data-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Port data-processing center<\/a>&nbsp;opened in November 2011, replacing the existing thirty-six regional data centers. Sberbank is set to be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/business\/202101251081868722-russias-largest-bank-to-launch-its-own-cryptocurrency-sbercoin-by-march\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the world\u2019s first bank<\/a>&nbsp;to launch its own cryptocurrency, Sbercoin, and digital finance \u201cecosystem\u201d this March. It notably announced the coming Sbercoin, a \u201cstablecoin\u201d tied to the Russian ruble,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/atozmarkets.com\/news\/sberbank-issue-stablecoin-sbercoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just a few weeks<\/a>&nbsp;after the Cyber Polygon 2020 exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sberbank\u2019s alliance with the WEF and prominence at Cyber Polygon 2020 was underscored at the event during the welcoming remarks delivered by Klaus Schwab. Schwab gave special thanks to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herman_Gref\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Herman Gref<\/a>, a member of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/authors\/herman-gref\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">board of trustees<\/a>&nbsp;of the World Economic Forum and Sberbank\u2019s CEO and also issued the following dire warning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We all know, but still pay insufficient attention to, the frightening scenario of a comprehensive cyberattack which would bring to a complete halt to the power supply, transportation, hospital services, our society as a whole. The COVID-19 crisis would be seen in this respect as a small disturbance in comparison to a major cyberattack. We have to ask ourselves, in such a situation, how could we let this happen despite the fact we had all the information about the possibility and seriousness of a risk attack. Cybercrime and global cooperation should be on the forefront of the global agenda.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similar warnings were heard at a 2019 simulation that was also cosponsored by the World Economic Forum, Event 201. Event 201, which simulated a global pandemic just months before the COVID-19 crisis, presciently warned in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/event201\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its official documentation<\/a>: \u201cThe next severe pandemic will not only cause great illness and loss of life but could also trigger major cascading economic and societal consequences that could contribute greatly to global impact and suffering.\u201d In contrast to similar simulations conducted in the past, Event 201 championed a \u201cpublic-private partnership\u201d approach to combatting pandemics, with a focus on engaging \u201cthe private sector in epidemic and outbreak preparedness at the national or regional level.\u201d The WEF is, among other things, a major evangelist for the merging of the public and private sectors globally, describing itself as the \u201cinternational organization for private-public cooperation.\u201d It is thus unsurprising that their latest disaster simulation, which focuses on cyberattacks, would promote this same agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-speakers-at-cyber-polygon-2020\"><strong>The Speakers at Cyber Polygon 2020<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aside from Schwab and Mishustin, twenty others took part in Cyber Polygon 2020, including some big names from the top echelons of the political elite. First off, Herman Gref engaged in discussion<a href=\"https:\/\/cyberpolygon.com\/gallery\/video\/%23TI9RMSvtkBU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;with<\/a>&nbsp;former UK prime minister Tony Blair, who has been pushing for digital identity systems for decades. Blair straightforwardly told the CEO of Sberbank that biometric digital identity systems will \u201cinevitably\u201d be the tools that most governments will use to deal with future pandemics. Blair, discussing the coronavirus pandemic with Gref, advocated the harshest of lockdown measures, saying the only alternative to biometric digital identities is to \u201clockdown the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sebastiantolstoy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sebastian Tolstoy<\/a>, Ericsson\u2019s general director for Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Russia and current chairman of the Tolstoy Family Foundation in Sweden, dialogued with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketscreener.com\/business-leaders\/Alexey-Kornya-8590\/biography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alexey Kornya<\/a>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketscreener.com\/business-leaders\/Alexey-Kornya-8590\/biography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kornya<\/a>&nbsp;is president, CEO, and chairman of the management board of Mobile TeleSystems. He previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and AIG-Brunswick Capital Management at North-West Telecom. Tolstoy and Kornya presented a segment at Cyber Polygon 2020 entitled \u201cBuilding a Secure Interconnected World: What Is the Role of the Telecom Sector?\u201d in which they discussed the importance of digital communication and connectivity to our modern way of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the next segment,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikgowing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nik Gowing<\/a>, BBC World News presenter between 1996 and 2014 and founder and director of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkunthink.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thinking the Unthinkable<\/a>, spoke with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vladimir_Pozner_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vladimir Pozner<\/a>, journalist and broadcaster, on the subject of \u201cfake news\u201d in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyberpolygon.com\/gallery\/video\/%23FRWYEmdZ0LQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conversation<\/a>&nbsp;that was actually somewhat refreshing in its arguments and approach.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europeansecurityforum.com\/blog\/stephane-duguin\" target=\"_blank\">St\u00e9phane Duguin<\/a>, the CEO of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberpeaceinstitute.org\/news\/team\/stephane-duguin\/\" target=\"_blank\">CyberPeace Institute<\/a>, a Geneva-based company that describes itself as \u201ccitizens who seek peace and justice in cyberspace,\u201d then gave a talk to the millions of viewers watching the simulation. The CyberPeace Institute,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberpeaceinstitute.org\/what-we-do\/\" target=\"_blank\">funded by<\/a>\u00a0Microsoft, Facebook, Mastercard, and the Hewlett Foundation, among others,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberpeaceinstitute.org\/what-we-do\" target=\"_blank\">claims to<\/a>\u00a0help their customers \u201cincrease digital resilience and the capacity to respond to and recover from cyberattacks.\u201d The core backers of the CyberPeace Institute are also among the top backers of the Global Cyber Alliance,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalcyberalliance.org\/partner\/\" target=\"_blank\">which unites<\/a>\u00a0the public sectors of the US, UK, and France with multinational corporations and intelligence-linked cybersecurity firms, employing \u201ca coordinated approach and nontraditional collaboration\u201d to \u201creduce cyber risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duguin, who is also on the advisory board of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thegfce.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global Forum on Cyber Expertise,<\/a>&nbsp;recently launched the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyber4healthcare.cyberpeaceinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cyber4Healthcare initiative<\/a>, a \u201cfree\u201d cybersecurity service to healthcare providers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The Cyber4Healthcare initiative&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyber4healthcare.cyberpeaceinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">includes as its main partners<\/a>&nbsp;BI.ZONE as well as Microsoft and the Global Cyber Alliance. This is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/2020\/08\/investigative-reports\/meet-the-idf-linked-cybersecurity-group-protecting-us-hospitals-pro-bono\/\">yet another<\/a>&nbsp;suspicious Microsoft-linked free cybersecurity service currently being pitched to and adopted by healthcare providers around the world at a time when warnings of a coming cyberattack on healthcare systems globally are becoming more public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dhanya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dhanya Thakkar<\/a>, senior vice president of AMEA at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/en_us\/business.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trend Micro<\/a>, who advertises himself online as a top ASEAN LinkedIn \u201ccybersecurity influencer,\u201d and Wendi Whitmore, vice president of IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence, next discussed the topic \u201cKnow Your Enemy: How Is the Crisis Changing the Cyberthreat Landscape?\u201d IBM\u2019s presence is notable due to the company\u2019s longstanding relationship&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wraltechwire.com\/2020\/11\/23\/ibm-lands-a-cloud-deal-with-cia-as-part-of-reported-multi-billion-dollar-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">with the CIA<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Deep-Blue-Industrial-Espionage-IBM\/dp\/1681022877\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dating back<\/a>&nbsp;to the early Cold War. The company has become so entrenched that the CIA recently recruited their chief information officer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.govconwire.com\/2019\/03\/ibms-juliane-gallina-to-serve-as-chief-information-officer-at-cia-in-april\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">directly from IBM Federal<\/a>. Before joining IBM, Whitmore held executive positions at California-based cybersecurity technology companies&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdstrike.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CrowdStrike<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireeye.com\/mandiant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mandiant<\/a>, the latter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mandiant-fireeye-idUSBREA010W220140102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">acquired<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireeye.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FireEye<\/a>&nbsp;in a stock and cash deal worth in excess of $1 billion. Whitmore was responsible for \u201cprofessional services.\u201d Notably, both CrowdStrike and Mandiant\/FireEye are the key organizations&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/another-mega-group-spy-scandal-samanage-sabotage-and-the-solarwinds-hack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leading the investigation<\/a>&nbsp;into the recent SolarWinds hack, which US intelligence has blamed on a \u201cRussian hacker\u201d without providing any evidence. Whitmore began her career as a special agent conducting computer crime investigations with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ey.com\/en_au\/people\/jacqueline-kernot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jacqueline Kernot<\/a>, the Australian \u201cpartner in cybersecurity\u201d for Ernst and Young, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hector-rodriguez-315921\/?originalSubdomain=ae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hector Rodriguez<\/a>, senior vice president and regional risk officer for Visa, next discussed how to prepare for cyberattacks.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jkernot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kernot worked<\/a>&nbsp;for over twenty-five years as a military officer for the Australian Intelligence Corps and spent two years working at IBM\u2019s Defence|Space|Intelligence for Tivoli Software in the UK with \u201cinternational responsibilities within the UK Ministry of Defence, Defence Primes, and NATO.\u201d Ernst and Young and Visa, alongside other&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/another-mega-group-spy-scandal-samanage-sabotage-and-the-solarwinds-hack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WEF-linked corporations<\/a>&nbsp;such as Salesforce, are well represented on the Vatican\u2019s exclusive&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inclusivecapitalism.com\/our-guardians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Council for Inclusive Capitalism<\/a>. The Council, like the WEF,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inclusivecapitalism.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calls for<\/a>&nbsp;the reconstruction of the economic system to be more \u201csustainable,\u201d \u201cinclusive,\u201d and \u201cdynamic\u201d by \u201charnessing the power of the private sector.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/es.weforum.org\/people\/troels-oerting-jorgensen-de140be2-a9c3-4f21-9251-c6d281ce9720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Troels&nbsp;<\/a>\u00d8rting J\u00f8rgensen , chairman of the advisory board of the World Economic Forum\u2019s Centre for Cybersecurity, and J\u00fcrgen Stock, the Danish secretary general of INTERPOL, also spoke together at Cyber Polygon regarding the changes in global cybercrime over the course of the previous year. A few months after appearing at Cyber Polygon, the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority announced in an official statement that \u201cTroels \u00d8rting has notified the Ministry of Business Affairs that he is resigning from the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority\u2019s board.\u201d Citing unnamed sources, Danish financial news service FinansWatch reported that during the time between 2015 and 2018, when he was employed as head of security at Barclays bank, \u00d8rting had been a key figure in the hunt for a whistleblower who had exposed the same criminal activity \u00d8rting railed against at Cyber Polygon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cyberp3.jpeg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-4443\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cyberp3.jpeg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4443\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man speaking alongside \u00d8rting, J\u00fcrgen Stock, is a former German police officer, criminologist, and lawyer. He&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interpol.int\/News-and-Events\/News\/2019\/Juergen-Stock-appointed-for-second-term-as-INTERPOL-Secretary-General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was elected<\/a>&nbsp;for a second term as secretary general of INTERPOL in 2019, a term that generally lasts for five years.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeansecurityforum.com\/blog\/craig-jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Craig Jones<\/a>, the cybercrime director at INTERPOL, also joined the discussion at Cyber Polygon 2020. The New Zealander spent twenty-seven years in law enforcement and is considered an expert in cybercrime investigations. He previously held several senior-management positions in UK law enforcement, most recently at the National Crime Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/579bUh3IdsE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Petr Gorodov&nbsp;<\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/icannwiki.org\/John_Crain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Crain<\/a>&nbsp;were briefly interviewed at the Cyber Polygon 2020 event. Gorodov is head of the General Directorate for International Relations and Legal Assistance of the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office of the Russian Federation and also sits on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interpol.int\/Who-we-are\/Commission-for-the-Control-of-INTERPOL-s-Files-CCF\/About-the-CCF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Commission for the Control of INTERPOL\u2019s files<\/a>. He is on the Requests Chamber of INTERPOL, which examines and decides on requests for access to data as well as requests for correction and\/or deletion of data processed in the INTERPOL information system.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/icannwiki.org\/John_Crain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Crain<\/a>&nbsp;is chief security, stability, and resiliency officer at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icann.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ICANN<\/a>, the nonprofit internet security corporation. He is currently responsible for the management of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icann.org\/news\/blog\/the-importance-of-the-l-root-in-the-dns-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">L-Root server<\/a>, one of the internet\u2019s thirteen root servers, making his inclusion at the simulation particularly notable. At Cyber Polygon 2020 he promoted a \u201clong-term solution of working together in the cybersecurity community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final word at Cyber Polygon 2020 was delivered by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sberbank.com\/investor-relations\/corporate-governance\/sberbank-executive-board\/skuznetsov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stanislav Kuznetsov,<\/a>&nbsp;deputy chairman of the executive board at Sberbank. He is also a board member for the Sberbank charity foundation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.finextra.com\/pressarticle\/72849\/sberbank-launches-ai-academy-project-for-schoolchildren\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contribution to the Future<\/a>, a project that seeks to get Russian schoolchildren from grades seven through eleven interested in AI (artificial intelligence), machine learning, and data analysis and to help them develop math and programming skills. Kuznetsov studied at the Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-main-event-enter-the-polygon\"><strong>The Main Event: Enter the Polygon<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/9b4ed997fbe71f98f4c443a66d153597-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-4454\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/9b4ed997fbe71f98f4c443a66d153597-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4454\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Participants in the Cyber Polygon 2020 event, Source: https:\/\/cyberpolygon.com\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The simulation component of Cyber Polygon 2020 saw 120 teams from twenty-nine countries take part in the cybersecurity technical simulation. During the online event, participants \u201cexercise[d] the actions of the response team in a targeted attack aimed at stealing confidential data and thus resulting in damage to the company reputation.\u201d Two teams, the Red and the Blue, went head-to-head in the simulations where the Red Team, made up of the training organizers from BI.ZONE, simulated cyberattacks and the Blue Team members attempted to protect their segments of the training infrastructure. The actual simulation was made up of two scenarios in which the various subgroups making up the teams could gain points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first scenario, called Defence, made the Cyber Polygon participants practice repelling an active&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advanced_persistent_threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">APT (advanced persistent threat) cyberattack<\/a>. The scenario\u2019s objective was stated as being to \u201cdevelop skills for repelling targeted cyberattacks on a business-critical system.\u201d The simulation\u2019s fictional organization\u2019s virtual infrastructure included a service that processes confidential client information. This service became the subject of interest to an APT group that planned to steal confidential user data and resell it on the \u201cdarknet\u201d to financially benefit and damage the company\u2019s reputation. The APT group studied the target system in advance and discovered several critical vulnerabilities. In the scenario, the cyber \u201cgang\u201d plans to attack on the day of the exercise. The participants involved were judged on their ability to cope with the attack as fast as possible, to minimize the amount of information stolen, and to maintain service availability. Blue Team participants could apply any applications and tools to protect the infrastructure and were also allowed to fix system vulnerabilities by improving the service code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the second scenario, called Response, the teams had to investigate the incident using \u201cclassic forensics and threat hunting techniques.\u201d Based on the information gathered, participants had to compose a dossier that would help law enforcement agencies locate the criminals. The second scenario\u2019s objective was to develop skills in incident investigation using the scenario in which cybercriminals gained access to a privileged account through a successful phishing attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the BI.ZONE team released the results of the simulation they intentionally avoided using the real names of the organizations so as not to \u201cset off a competition between the participants and keep their results confidential.\u201d However, the teams could later compare their results with the others by using a basic scoreboard, and the hosts could analyse the crucial data showing various organizational weaknesses of each of the participating teams\/institutions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final report states that the results showed that \u201cbanks and companies from the IT industry demonstrated the highest resilience. Security assessment expertise in these sectors is quite well developed, with classic forensics and threat hunting widely applied.\u201d In lay terms, the teams from banks and the IT industry seemed to be better prepared than most other sectors for investigating and hunting down threats. However, all the teams involved proved to be less than able when it came to the initial defense from a cyberattack, with the BI.ZONE report stating that \u201c27% of the teams had difficulties earning points for the first scenario, which allows us to conclude that some of the team members lack or have insufficient expertise in security assessment and protection of web applications.\u201d On the subject of threat hunting, the report goes on to say that \u201c21% of the teams could not earn a single point for the second round of the second scenario. This was attributed to \u2018Threat Hunting\u2019 being a relatively novel approach and the majority of organisations lacking experience of applying its techniques in practice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cyber Polygon 2020 event revealed the weakness in human-led defensive response and resilience as it relates cyberdefense. This outcome is convenient for hi-tech cybersecurity companies like BI.ZONE that wish to highlight the superiority of AI-driven cybersecurity products in comparison to \u201cinefficient\u201d human workers. Also, it should be noted that BI.ZONE\u2019s gaining knowledge of global institutional weaknesses through cyberdefense training could be useful intelligence for their parent company, Sberbank, and in turn the largest shareholder of Sberbank, the Russian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bringing-russia-in-from-the-cold\"><strong>Bringing Russia in from the Cold<\/strong>?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Russian Federation authorities are quite used to being out in the cold both politically and physically, there appears to be a change in the usual order of nations. Russia\u2019s inclusion as the leader in such an important global cybersecurity initiative is a bit surprising, especially after Russia has been the scapegoat of choice for any cyberattack committed against any Western power for several years, most recently with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/another-mega-group-spy-scandal-samanage-sabotage-and-the-solarwinds-hack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the SolarWinds hack<\/a>&nbsp;in the US. Yet, there was no outcry in the West over Cyber Polygon 2020, in which a company that is majority owned by the Russian government was able to gain direct knowledge of the cyberdefense weaknesses of major global institutions, banks, and corporations through their hosting of the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The complete absence of the \u201cRussian hacker\u201d narrative at Cyber Polygon as well as Russia\u2019s leadership role at the event suggests either that a geopolitical shift has taken place or that the Russian hacker narrative commonly deployed by intelligence agencies in the US and Europe is mainly meant for the general public and not for the elite figures and policymakers in attendance at Cyber Polygon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another possibility for Russia no longer being treated as the perpetual enemy of cyberspace is that it is entirely on board with both the official coronavirus narrative and the allegedly imminent cyberpandemic. Cyber Polygon 2020 appeared, in part, to be a Russian charm offensive that was welcomed by the powerful elite. Tony Blair, who once held out the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/tony-blair-and-colonel-gaddafi-questions-former-prime-minister-faces-over-his-ties-libya-a6767191.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hand of false reconciliation<\/a>&nbsp;on behalf of the international community to Colonel Gaddafi, has often been involved in these exercises of international diplomacy on behalf of the elites in the years since he left public office. His involvement in the exercise may have been meant to facilitate support among Western WEF-aligned governments for even greater Russian inclusion in the Great Reset. Part of this is due to the WEF-led effort to bring BRICS nations like China and Russia into the Great Reset fold because it is essential for their agenda\u2019s success on a global scale. Now, Russia is pioneering this new model of supposedly national finance systems that the WEF supports through Sberbank\u2019s creation of a digital monopoly not only of financial services but&nbsp;<em>all&nbsp;<\/em>services within the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cyber Polygon 2020 was both an ad for pro-Russian relations and a promotional exercise for Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum\u2019s Great Reset. Some of the people who took part and supported the Cyber Polygon event are involved at the highest levels of cyber intelligence; some may have even been unofficial representatives of their national state intelligence apparatus. The decisions of several national governments to participate directly in the WEF-led Great Reset is no \u201cconspiracy theory.\u201d For instance, the incoming Biden administration sent its climate envoy, John Kerry, to the WEF annual meeting last month, where Kerry&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/energy-environment\/528482-john-kerry-reveals-bidens-devotion-to-radical-great-reset-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">underscored the US commitment<\/a>&nbsp;to the Great Reset agenda and the associated Fourth Industrial Revolution that seeks to automate most jobs being currently performed by humans. With the governments of Russia, China, the US, the UK, Israel, Canada, and India, among others, on board with this transnational agenda, it becomes deeply unsettling that high-ranking operatives in both the public and private sectors joined the WEF to conduct a simulation of a crisis that would clearly benefit the Great Reset agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As previously mentioned, the WEF cosponsored a simulation of a coronavirus pandemic just months before the actual event. Soon after the COVID-19 crisis began in earnest last March, Schwab noted that the pandemic crisis was just what was needed to launch the Great Reset as it served as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/07\/covid-19-the-great-reset\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a convenient catalyst<\/a>&nbsp;to begin overhauling economies, governance, and social society on a global scale. If the destabilizing events simulated at Cyber Polygon do come to pass, it will likely be similarly welcomed by the WEF, given that a critical failure in the current global financial system would allow the introduction of new public-private \u201cdigital ecosystem\u201d monopolies such as those being built in Russia by Sberbank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This effort by Sberbank to both digitize and monopolize access to all services, both private and public, may be appealing to some because of its apparent convenience. However, it will also be emblematic of what we can expect from Schwab\u2019s Great Reset\u2014monopolies of fused public- and private-sector entities disguised by the term \u201cstakeholder capitalism.\u201d What the general public does not realize yet is that they themselves will not be included among these \u201cstakeholders,\u201d as the Great Reset has been designed by the bankers and wealthy elite for the bankers and the wealthy elite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the Cyber Polygon 2020 event, the coming cyberpandemic is being prophetically thrown in our faces just as the pandemic exercise was prior to the actual disease\u2019s appearance. Such prophetic warnings are coming not only from the WEF, however. For instance, the head of Israel\u2019s National Cyber Directorate, Yigal Unna,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2020\/05\/28\/cyber-winter-is-coming-top-israeli-official-warns-after-iran-attack-on-water-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned last year<\/a>&nbsp;that a \u201ccyber winter\u201d of cyberattacks \u201cis coming and coming faster than even I suspected.\u201d In the cyber directorate, Unna works closely with Israeli intelligence agencies, including the infamous Unit 8200, which has a long history of electronic espionage targeting the US and other countries and which has been responsible for several devastating hacks, including the Stuxnet virus that damaged Iran\u2019s nuclear program. Israeli intelligence is also<a href=\"https:\/\/mfa.gov.il\/mfa\/innovativeisrael\/economy\/pages\/pm-netanyahu-participates-in-world-economic-forum-virtual-panel-21-october-2020.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;poised to be<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israeli-startups-to-play-key-role-in-the-fourth-industrial-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">among the greatest beneficiaries<\/a>&nbsp;of the Great Reset&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-gets-top-marks-for-entrepreneurship-innovation-in-wef-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">due to<\/a>&nbsp;the strength of the nation\u2019s hi-tech sector. In addition, last month saw the UAE\u2019s central bank following Cyber Polygon\u2019s lead by conducting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ae\/news\/other\/uae-conducts-cyberattack-simulation-on-banking-sector\/ar-BB1d2TdC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its first-ever cyberattack simulation<\/a>&nbsp;in coordination with the Emirati private-finance sector. Corporate media outlets, for their part, began this year by claiming that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/financial-services\/cyber-attacks-may-trigger-next-crisis-for-banks-20201221-p56pbd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cyberattacks may trigger the next crisis for banks<\/a>\u201d and, as of February 1, that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/02\/08\/the-next-cyberattack-is-already-under-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the next cyberattack is already underway<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some will say that a \u201ccyberpandemic\u201d is an inevitable consequence of the quickly developing hi-tech world in which we live, but it still fair to point out that 2021 is the year that many have been predicting for the financial destruction of big institutions that will lead to new economic systems that align with the Great Reset. The inevitable collapse of the global banking system, resulting from the off-the-charts corruption and fraud that has run rampant for decades, is likely to be conducted through a controlled collapse, one that would allow wealthy bankers and elites, such as those that participated in Cyber Polygon, to avoid responsibility for their economic pillaging and criminal activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is especially true for Cyber Polygon participant Deutsche Bank, whose&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/deutsche-bank-collapse-could-crash-global-financial-markets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inevitable collapse<\/a>&nbsp;has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbcgold.com\/blog\/deutsche-bank-brink-collapse-another-canary-coal-mine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">openly discussed<\/a>&nbsp;for years&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmentwatchblog.com\/deutsche-bank-on-the-brink-of-insolvency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">due to<\/a>&nbsp;the bank\u2019s extreme corruption, fraud, and massive exposure to derivatives. In late 2019, months before the COVID-19 crisis began, the CEO of Deutsche Bank warned that central banks&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/09\/25\/deutsche-bank-ceo-central-banks-have-no-tools-left-to-cushion-crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no longer had tools<\/a>&nbsp;that could adequately respond to the next \u201ceconomic crisis.\u201d It is certainly telling that entirely new banking systems, such as Sberbank\u2019s soon-to-be-launched digital monetary monopoly, began to be developed just as it began to be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/09\/25\/deutsche-bank-ceo-central-banks-have-no-tools-left-to-cushion-crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publicly acknowledged<\/a>&nbsp;that central banks\u2019 traditional means of responding to economic calamities were no longer viable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A massive cyberattack, such as that simulated at Cyber Polygon 2020, would allow faceless hackers to be blamed for economic collapse, thus absolving the real financial criminals of responsibility. Furthermore, due to the difficult nature of investigating hacks and the ability of intelligence agencies to frame other nation states for hacks they in fact committed themselves, any boogeyman of choice can be blamed, whether&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/07\/cybersecurity-202-riot-capitol-is-nightmare-scenario-cybersecurity-professionals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a \u201cdomestic terror\u201d group<\/a>&nbsp;or a country unaligned with the WEF (for now, at least)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/2020\/01\/investigative-series\/how-government-and-media-are-prepping-america-for-a-failed-2020-election\/\">like Iran or North Korea<\/a>. Between the well-placed warnings, simulations, and the clear benefit for the global elite intent on a Great Reset, Cyber Polygon 2020 appears to have served not only its publicly stated purpose but its own ulterior motives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/2021\/02\/investigative-reports\/from-event-201-to-cyber-polygon-the-wefs-simulation-of-a-coming-cyber-pandemic\/\">https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/2021\/02\/investigative-reports\/from-event-201-to-cyber-polygon-the-wefs-simulation-of-a-coming-cyber-pandemic\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/author\/johnnyvedmoregmail-com\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the World Economic Forum teamed up with the Russian government and global banks to run a high-profile cyberattack simulation that targeted the financial industry, an actual event that would pave the way for a \u201creset\u201d of the global economy. The simulation, named Cyber Polygon, may have been more than a typical planning exercise and bears similarities to the WEF-sponsored pandemic simulation Event 201 that briefly preceded the COVID-19 crisis. On Wednesday, the World Economic Forum (WEF), along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woke-agenda"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4953,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions\/4953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}