Results for 'vital infrastructure'
Vital infrastructure: securing our food and agriculture
November 12, 2019 - I don’t expect to hear any arguments on whether the production of our food is important or not. So why do...
Vital infrastructure: emergency services
September 11, 2019 - Organizations in the emergency services sector are there for the public to provide help when situations get out of hand or...
Compromising vital infrastructure: problems in education security continue
July 17, 2019 - The educational system and many of its elements are targets for cybercriminals on a regular basis. While education is a fundamental...
Compromising vital infrastructure: water management
April 1, 2019 - It’s probably unnecessary to explain why water management is considered part of our vital infrastructure, but it’s a wider field than...
Compromising vital infrastructure: communication
February 8, 2019 - Have you ever been witness to a Wi-Fi failure in a household with school-aged children? If so, I don’t have to...
Compromising vital infrastructure: the power grid
December 13, 2018 - Where were you when the lights went out? That line became famous after the 1977 blackout in New York City. This power...
Compromising vital infrastructure: air traffic control
November 15, 2018 - While most of us know that flying is the safest mode of transport, we still feel that sigh of relief when...
Compromising vital infrastructure: transport and logistics
November 6, 2018 - Back when I was a dispatcher for a courier and trucking company, we used to joke that it only took a...
Compromising vital infrastructure: how voting machines and elections are vulnerable
October 23, 2018 - In our first post in a series about vital infrastructure, we aim to explore how secure our voting machines—and our votes...
Chris Krebs, director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, fired by President
November 18, 2020 - On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump fired Chris Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), just days after...