- Plan is dubbed Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization
- It will include automated systems that will help restore power within 7 days
- Follows a warning by General Keith Alexander that the US is at a growing risk of cyber attacks, with energy infrastructure a prime target
The US is at an ever growing risk of a cyber attacks, with energy infrastructure likely to be hackers’ prime target.
This was the stark warning made by General Keith Alexander, the retired general and former chief of the National Security Agency, earlier this year.
Initially, however, it will focus on infrastructure that is vital to the Department of Defense’s missions.
Dubbed Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization (RADICS), its goal is to develop automated systems to deal with a loss of power.The US is at an ever growing risk of a cyber attacks, with energy infrastructure likely to be hacker’s prime target. This was the stark warning made by General Keith Alexander, the retired four-star general and former chief of the National Security Agency, earlier this year NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ARE NOT PREPARED FOR A CYBER ATTACK
Nuclear power plants throughout the world are in denial over the risk of a serious cyber attack, a report has warned.The study claims that the civil nuclear infrastructure in most countries is unprepared for such attacks.
The consequences could be devastating, as even a small-scale attack, it found, could release deadly radiation into the local area.
The report claims that cyber criminals could trigger an incident similar to that seen at Fukushima Daichi in Japan in 2011.
The report found a worrying lack of security protocols at nuclear plants throughout the world.For instance, standard factory-set passwords, such as ‘1234’, were found to be on a range of computer systems that control a power plant’s critical system.
‘Isolating affected utilities from the internet would enable recovery efforts to proceed without adversary surveillance and interference,’ Everett said.
‘The greatest risk is a catastrophic attack on the energy infrastructure. We are not prepared for that,’ General Keith Alexander said earlier this year.‘We need something like an integrated air-defence system for the whole energy sector,’ he said.
The current NSA chief Michael Rogers testified late last year that China is capable of cyber attacks that could cause ‘catastrophic failures’ of the water system or the electricity grid.
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