Cybersecurity Is Everyone's Responsibility
When PNWER did its attack simulation, scenarios included: shutting down the Internet; attacking electric utilities, telecommunications and gas pipelines; contaminating a city’s water supply; and threatening ports with nuclear weapons. Participants uncovered deficiencies in their ability to report and receive information about infrastructure failures, so the group wants to develop a regional communication system to warn companies and agencies about threats or attacks, and to connect the public and private organizations that would be responsible for restoring services. The federal government’s role, could be to provide funding or technical expertise to build that regional communication system, says Paula Scalingi, the former head of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Office who is now helping PNWER develop its regional partnership for infrastructure security.
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