Texas Blackouts Highlight Costs of Ignoring Resilience
Millions of residents of Texas and bordering states -and even parts of Mexico- are without power this week facing freezing,...
Infrastructure Security
The Clock is Ticking for Important Decisions on Grid Security by Biden Administration
While President Biden’s 90-day suspension of Executive Order 13920 (securing the U.S. bulk-power system) leaves the country vulnerable, his nominee...
Pakistan’s Latest Blackout Reminds America of Threat to Electrical Grid
Over the weekend, more than 200 million residents of Pakistan were without electricity in the country’s second nation-wide blackout. Pakistan’s...
Nashville Bombing Exposes Dangerous Vulnerability of Critical Communications Infrastructure
Originally published at World Tribune For more than 24 hours, the Christmas morning bomb blast in downtown Nashville, Tennessee knocked...
Situation Report: U.S. Government Agencies Targeted in Global Cyberespionage Campaign
Several U.S. government agencies, including the Treasury and Commerce Departments as well as corporations were targeted in a massive cyber-espionage...
Israel may have killed top Iranian nuclear weapons scientist to avert dangerous threat
Originally published by Fox News The Jewish state may fear the Biden administration will urge an end to such Israeli...
The good news: DoD has an “electromagnetic spectrum superiority strategy” | The bad news: It depends on electricity and ignores EMP
On 29 October 2020, the Department of Defense released its Electromagnetic Spectrum Superiority Strategy, which it describes as “a critical...
Loss of ICBMs: Biden will almost certainly abolish this indispensable deterrent
Originally published by the Washington Times - Dr. Peter Pry is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy....
From Elections to Electrons – Cybersecurity Threats to America’s Infrastructure
On July 8th 2020, George Cotter, a veteran cryptologist and former Chief Information Officer of the National Security Agency, joined...
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes America’s Need for Resilient Critical Infrastructure
American society’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic exposes a number of stark realities ranging from our nation’s unpreparedness for a...
Shining sunlight on a massive cybersecurity cover-up
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” ...
Will grid regulators FINALLY take security seriously?
One week after the President of the United States declared a national emergency with respect to the electric grid and...
Grid experts on the need to improve the resiliency of the US electrical grid
With Curtis Birnbach, David Winks, Tom Popik, and Tommy Waller CURTIS BIRNBACH, President, Chief Technology Officer, Board of Directors of...
Fred Fleitz: In national security, we have to focus on real threats
With Fred Fleitz, Shoshana Bryen, Kevin Freeman, and J. Christian Adams FRED FLEITZ, President and CEO Center for Security Policy,...
The need to secure the US electrical grid from an electromagnetic pulse attack
With Amoretta Hoeber AMORETTA HOEBER, President of AMH Consulting, Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army in Reagan Administration: What...
The pandemic means grid operators must be resourced like DoD’s Special Operators, and now!
Originally published by The Epoch Times Members of the U.S. Special Operations Command are among the most well-trained and well-equipped...