ISA NATIONAL DEFENSE CYBER THREAT REPORT: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Our Transportation Infrastructure is Already Compromised Endangering National Security The People’s Republic of China has forecast its intent to move against Taiwan as early as 2027. Such a move creates extensive strategic concerns for the United States, which could generate the need for a physical show of force. However, if, for example, the US decided […]
ISA NATIONAL DEFENSE CYBER THREAT REPORT: MANUFACTURING
Critical Manufacturing is now the most frequently attacked U.S. critical infrastructure sector, surpassing energy, financial services, and transportation. According to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), manufacturing plays a foundational role in national defense by supplying metals, machinery, electronic systems, and advanced materials essential to modern weapons platforms and critical industrial supply chains1. […]
ISA NATIONAL DEFENSE CYBER THREAT REPORT: HEALTHCARE
Government’s Motto for Cybersecurity needs to be Do No Harm Healthcare was one of the very first industries regulated for cybersecurity under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and remains one of the least cybersecure. Academic reviews of cybersecurity policy have identified 49 separate regulations, standards, and guidelines applicable to healthcare […]
ISA NATIONAL DEFENSE CYBER THREAT REPORT: AGRICULTURE
Food is on the Front Line of Nation-State Cyber Attacks We Are Already Under Attack Agriculture is one of the nation’s most essential and least protected infrastructures. Rapid digitization of precision farming, automated processing, and just-in-time logistics has created an attack surface that has expanded far more quickly than cybersecurity investment. USDA officials […]
ISA NATIONAL DEFENSE CYBER THREAT REPORT: THE ELECTRIC GRID
Chinese Hackers Have Infiltrated Our Grid American cybersecurity faces a significant and immediate challenge. Chinese state-sponsored hackers have embedded themselves in our critical electric utility infrastructure—positioning themselves to potentially disrupt both our economy and our operational national defense capability. In November, Politico quoted the Chief Information Security Officer of a major critical infrastructure company, stating, […]
ISA NATIONAL DEFENSE CYBER THREAT REPORT THREE: WATER
The Navy can’t protect us from these attacks on the water. Chinese military strategists have long emphasized that the most effective way to weaken an adversary is to disrupt its critical infrastructure without firing a shot. The discovery that Volt Typhoon, a Chinese military cyber group, has successfully attacked and compromised access to American water […]
ISA NATIONAL DEFENSE CYBER THREAT REPORT: GOVERNMENT
Our government is not cyber-secure. Two weeks ago, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed it was suffering an ongoing hack perpetrated by Chinese state-backed agents. The attack potentially exposed CBO’s communications with lawmakers’ offices and access to cost estimates and analysis of legislation—information that could be of significant interest to foreign intelligence services tracking […]
ISA NATIONAL DEFENSE CYBER THREAT REPORT: TELECOMMUNICATIONS
“We’re really dealing with a highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor that will do anything and everything at any price to get a foothold into our critical infrastructure.” — Nasrin Rezai, Chief Information Security Officer for Verizon¹. The New Definition of National Defense For generations, “national defense” has meant tanks, jets, and missiles. However, in the […]
ISA TO RELEASE REPORTS ON NATION-STATE ATTACKS ON PRIVATE INDUSTRY
In a speech at the 250th Marine Corps Birthday Ball earlier this week, Vice President JD Vance noted that technological change has fundamentally altered the nature of conflict between nation-states. “The battlefield has changed incredibly and profoundly. We’ve got technology that would have been inconceivable even when I was a kid — we’ve got cybersecurity, […]
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM EVENT HIGHLIGHTS NEED TO RETHINK CYBERSECURITY
I was honored this week to be asked to serve as a discussion leader at the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Councils and the Cybersecurity Conference in Dubai UAE. The three-day event was the first time the Forum has merged cybersecurity into the overall work of the Future Councils and represents the recognition of […]