Posts Tagged ‘National Guard Cyber-security’

United States… After the hacking of the Colonial Pipeline shook the country’s fuel supply, the National Guard is preparing for a major cyberattack that shuts down utilities across the United States. In this month’s two-week training exercise, troops across the New England region practiced tackling large-scale simulated violations across critical infrastructure sectors such as electricity, water, and gas. In this exercise, a large-scale cyberattack targeted utilities on the west coast and then moved eastward across the country. As in the actual scenario, the National Guard works with the FBI, Department of Homeland Security cyber-security and infrastructure security agencies, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, government agencies such as the US Cybercommand, and utility partners in the private sector. And respond to the crisis. This crisis was a simulation, but such attacks are becoming more and more possible. A recent series of…