Wednesday, July 27, 2011

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY: Not Just for Private Sector Any More

Tue, 2011-07-26 02:32 PM (www.gsnmagazine.com)

Mark Fabro (left)
and Anthony Di Bello
By Mark Fabro and Anthony Di Bello 
In the last several years, critical infrastructure protection has moved to the forefront of almost every asset owner’s agenda, be they in the public or private sector.
Perhaps more importantly, cyber security and its relevance to the protection of national critical assets are gaining considerable attention from Congress, the White House and the U.S. Defense Department.
Even though much of the U.S. critical infrastructure is owned by private industry, many high-value critical facilities are actually operated by government agencies. Critical infrastructure systems, regardless of who owns them, often share a tremendous amount of interdependency and interoperability, and from these interdependencies come previously unseen attack vectors.  Read more

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