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Threats Against Critical Infrastructure Are
Looming, Agencies Must Safely Modernize
OT Systems
Amid Recent Geopolitical Tensions, There Have Been Serious Concerns Regarding the
Vulnerability of The United States’ Critical Infrastructure.
By Josh Brodbent, Director of Public Sector Solutions Engineering, BeyondTrust
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) identifies 16 critical infrastructure sectors
whose operations are “so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a
debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any
combination thereof.” The threat of such an attack is credible enough to warrant official, repeated
warnings from the White House urging the public and private sectors bolster their “cyber defenses
immediately.”
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