James E. Scheuermann
Building cyber resilience that helps combat attacks on critical infrastructure is a key protection requirement for organizations and governments.
DHS Raises Alarm Over Cyberattacks on Critical InfrastructureAdhikari, Richard
The Pentagon's advanced research arm aims to hold a proposers' day this month to provide information on a new program designed to help find and respond to cyberattacks on critical U.S. infrastructure, according to a new notice. In the Nov. 24 notice on Federal Business Opportunities, the ...
These attacks are equivalent to a physical attack on the homeland and create vulnerabilities that later could be used to disable significant portions of our critical infrastructure, including health care, communications, transportation and other elements essential to our economy and quality of...
The recent and ongoing cyberattacks have been precisely targeted, with the aim to bring down Ukraine’s economy and government. Microsoft Digital Defense Report showed that the number of cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure had grown significantly. The level of sophistication of cyberattacks ...
Fig. 17.Impact of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure[143]. SG includes differentphysical objects, such as transformers, keen meters, and links managed by EI. Subsequently, SG is vulnerable to cyber-attacks which could subvert the management and cause indirect damage to these assets[144]. ...
The hope is that Perfect Citizen will hopefully help deter cyber attacks against critical government infrastructure such as utilities, electricity grids, and nuclear power plants. Hopefully they also implement a software security assurance process such as the Microsoft SDL to help proacti...
The Minimum ICT Standard was released just as the Attorney General's Office suspended criminal proceedings in connection with the cyber attacks carried out against government-owned defense firm RUAG in 2014. The government has not been able to identify the source of the attacks but insisted that ...
This category includes attempts to disrupt the operations of organizations by attacking their IT andoperational technology (OT)infrastructure to damage it, temporarily shut it down, or hold it for ransom. Espionage This category includes cyberattacks backed by state agencies that are part of broader ...