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MONOLOGUE WRITTEN BY CLYDE LEWIS This morning, I was inundated with e-mails and inquiries about Cyber Polygon 2021. Many listeners asked if I would do a follow-up on whether or not the gathering put together by the World Economic Forum gave us any news about what is going to happen to the supply chain if there is a major hack or data breach. However, there is more to the story. Part one of the gathering was broadcast virtually and after watching some of the proceedings, I came away feeling as if their simulation did go real time – the problem...

FROM 2/5/2021: 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 “reset” 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 Russia’s Sberbank and its cybersecurity subsidiary BI.ZONE announced that a new global cyberattack simulation would take place this...