The President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC), composed of senior executives from industry and State and local government who own and operate the critical infrastructure, issued an August 2017 report entitled, “Securing Cyber Assets: Addressing Urgent Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure.” Noting that “[c]yber is the sole arena where private companies are the front line of defense in a nation-state attack on U.S. infrastructure,” the report concludes that:
Today, we’re falling short. Cyber capabilities and oversight are fragmented, and roles and responsibilities remain unclear. We’re simply not organized to keep up with the threat. Fortunately, we find ourselves in a pre-9/11-level cyber moment, with a narrow and fleeting window of opportunity to coordinate our resources effectively.
You can read the full report below or on NIAC’s website at this link.
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