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Cyber Attacks and Critical Infrastructure

February 9, 2016

Over the past several years, there has been intense focus by governments and industry on the potential for cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. Recent events show us that the focus is essential. What is “critical infrastructure?” In his February 12, 2013, Executive Order—Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, 1 President Obama borrowed a definition from the USA Patriot Act of 2001, stating that it is “systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.” This would include such things as telecommunications systems, public health systems, transportation systems, power generation and delivery, water supply, financial services, food production and distribution, government, and public safety.

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