Brenner AG - Killing them softly with my ICE Famous last words: "AAAHHH!!!" Agenda 2 Political Overthrow 3 Corporate Downsizing Operations 5 Accounts Receivable 2 Project Consultants 2 Overtime Incentives 1 Edgerunner, Inc., Temps Upgrades 3 Marcel deSoleil 3 Lisa Blight 3 Crystal Palace Station Grid Nodes 3 BBS Whispering Campaign 3 Euromarket Consortium ICE 5 Bolter Cluster 3 Virizz 3 Shock.r 2 Quandary 2 Data Wall 2.0 ----------------------------------------------------------- Overview This German company is able to offer a very innovative method of intrusion countermeasures. Based on conventional ICE routines they employ several expert sysops with delicate skills for ICE manipulation. They also have a efficient management structure that keeps the company's bureucratic overhead minimal. Rumors about secret plans of political involvement have leaked to the net. It will be very diffcult for non-authorised personnel to get access to Brenner AG's intranet. Several fries have already been reported in various newsgroups. General Tactics We have to collect your bits quickly. Accounts Receivable and the Whispering Campaigns should give us enough power to set up our ICE and the needed upgrades. We will also use the increased storage capabilities and research features of the Euromarket Consortium. These are relatively cheap to aquire and it will cost intruders a lot to deny us access to the facilities. We can even use a piece of ICE to protect one of the access nodes as we won't build deep forts anyway. First we have to protect HQ and R&D, followed by Archives. Most of the time we won't need a subsidiary data fort anyway. Our basic strategy is to augment our Bolter Clusters with a Shock.r or a Virizz. Then we put to work Lisa Blight and/or Marcel DeSoleil inside our data forts and transfer the access routines to the Crytal Palace Station Grid if we can afford it. Our main goal here is to make the cost to break each subroutine as high as possible. If a run is initiated on one of our main forts Lisa or Marcel will duplicate as many of the 'do 4 net damage' subroutines of those nice Bolter Clusters as possible. With a cost of 3 or 4 times of the normal amount per subroutine we can be sure that most criminal subjects won't survive their attempt to breach our security. The new projections for the next fiscal year also allow us an advanced strategy: The current agenda clearly shows that a Corporate Downsizing may give us a huge income if we get the timing right. By offering the right incentives to our employees and with the help of external consultants for this project we will be able to get a hold on this small island state we were trying to infiltrate in the last quarter. This will give us an excellent position in the Pacifica region and should put us way ahead of our competitors. Hail to the king! Some Tips There are some things to take care of: The main topic is surprise. If we can lure the runner to one of of your forts while (s)he is low on bits we'll have a certain, clean kill. If our opponent has the oppotunity to calculate the necessary amount of eb the situation can become critical. We will use the Edgerunners mainly for virus removal. If there are no signs of a viral infection we can also save some amount of internal action while setting up our defenses. Bad publicity might be a problem as scoring a Political Overthrow and a Downsizing will take some time. But otherwise we should be able to cope with almost any possible form of instrusion. We have no need to tag illegal accessors to punish them but will do so 'on the fly'. The weak in mind may choose to replace the Corporate Downsizings by one or two AI Chief Financial Officers. Gives us more savety but less thrill. ----------------------------------------------------------- Back to The Main Page