Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity: What Must be Done Now to Protect the Future?

The Government and high technology industries must establish or update policies and procedures to help prevent, defend, mitigate, and develop risk based corrective actions to effectively combat these multiple threats. These activities should align with national emergency priorities to prevent or minimize unexpected and unanticipated incidents to high-threat areas related to national security, high technology sectors, and international espionage attempts.

1. The national energy grid and natural resources such as; nuclear energy assets, hydro-electrical generators, water reservoirs, waterways, and oil reserve resource security controls in the U.S. and across the globe must be frequently tested, re-assessed and strengthened.

The security posture and safety of these national and international assets must be carefully inspected, analyzed, and safeguarded to avoid any small or large disruptive event/s that could keep us from maintaining our Government, military assets, national agencies, and local/state entities from performing their planned and unplanned national defense disaster recovery operations.

The Grid Modernization and the Smart Grid whitepaper from the Department of Energy emphasized the importance of grid modernization necessary to bolster and support America’s national security goals, strengthen our global economy, as well as maintaining the health and safety of our population.