Celerium Partners with RH-ISAC to Support EX-RH2021 Retail, Hospitality, and Travel Industry Cybersecurity Exercise

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Celerium Inc. announced today it is partnering with the Retail and Hospitality ISAC (RH-ISAC) to support the EX-RH2021 cybersecurity exercise happening in June 2021.

EX-RH2021, the retail and hospitality sector's first industry-wide cybersecurity exercise, will be hosted by RH-ISAC in conjunction with DHS/CISA, the sector's leading trade associations in the retail, hospitality, and travel industries, and with participation of federal law enforcement.

This virtual exercise will involve a scenario with impacts designed to challenge participating company's incident management and escalation, operational decision making, cross-disciplinary coordination, executive decision making, and external communications. The scenario will contemplate the impacts of compromised information and business technology including point-of-sale and reservation/property management systems.

The exercise scenario will be conducted during a 5-hour period that will be broken into three waves of impacts, artfully allowing for a final two-hour exercise period enabling senior-level executive participation alongside all other exercise participants in their enterprise.

Celerium has agreed to provide all EX-RH2021 participants with complimentary access to a sector-specific Cyber Defense Network portal featuring a feed of relevant cyber threat intelligence regarding threat activity and vulnerabilities related to the retail, hospitality, and travel industries with context that includes high-level overviews, mitigation recommendations, and indicators of compromise (IOCs) and related observables that can be downloaded and used for analysis to improve detection. Additionally, RH-ISAC will leverage the Celerium portal to share custom reports and other information relevant to the sector's interests.

"We're pleased to have Celerium involved in this important moment for the retail, hospitality, and travel industries," said Carlos Kizzee, Executive Vice President of Intelligence Operations and Legal Affairs at RH-ISAC. "This exercise will help participants exercise existing enterprise policies and processes and allow the sector to mature its security practices and coordination among stakeholders including the federal government, law enforcement, and companies across the industry."

"Smart decision making during a cyber incident requires a good source of cyber threat intelligence, and the ability for a community to share information quickly and efficiently," said Tommy McDowell, General Manager of Celerium. "We're excited to support the RH-ISAC in the EX-RH2021 exercise."

About Celerium
Celerium® is focused on improving supply chain cyber defense within critical infrastructure industries, including the defense, aviation, and automotive industries. Its Cyber Defense Network (CDN) family of solutions empowers organizations to defend and protect against cyber threats via cyber threat intelligence and threat sharing tools.

Celerium is a leading supplier of cyber threat intelligence and cyber threat sharing solutions for critical infrastructure organizations serving the defense, aviation, and automotive industries. Relied on by government agencies, enterprise risk management teams, CISOs, and SOC analysts, Celerium provides cyber defense solutions to help organizations defend and protect against threats. Learn more at www.celerium.com.

ABOUT RH-ISAC
The Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC) is the sector's operational community for sector-specific cybersecurity information and intelligence sharing and collaboration. As such, the RH-ISAC not only connects and serves its members, it also seeks to partner collaboratively with all trade associations in the sector to support security development and maturity with the goal of building better security for the retail, hospitality, and travel industries through partnership and collaboration. Participation and partnership in this exercise is intended to serve and support the interests of all retail, hospitality, and travel companies, including retailers, restaurants, hotels, gaming casinos, food retailers, consumer products, and other consumer-facing companies. For more information, visit?www.rhisac.org. 

SOURCE Celerium