Posted on Nov 1, 2017
What Would We Do if Critical Infrastructures Failed Due to Cybersecurity Problems?
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It is interesting, but most of it is pretty common sense stuff. What is scary is how many of these industries seem to be violated especially in the financial and commercial sectors.
What Would We Do if Critical Infrastructures Failed Due to Cybersecurity Problems?
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Maybe it wouldn't be such a problem if they paid more attention to the basics and less to exorbitant pay and perks for the top executives --- Never gonna happen without strong oversight, though.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
PO1 Tony Holland I would not suggest holding your breath until that happens. You will turn funny colors and pass out long before it does.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill what we have seen thus far are what I would deem amateurs not much more than cyber bullies. Imagine what a REAL cyber attack would do. Say the electrical grid in any part of the country was infected with the same ransomware that hit the UK hospital systems. POSSIBLY, the electrical companies are doing their regular system backups and storing off site etc. in which case it would only be a matter of hours until the entire system could be wiped and reloaded. How many actually do regular backups? From what I've read less than half which puts us in an entirely different scenario that could take weeks or months to restore power.
Lets kick it up a notch for giggles and grins. Instead of ransomware, lets say someone hacks into an electrical system with the intent of bringing the system down. How hard would it be to redirect power and overload areas that would destroy equipment? How long would it take to recover? What would happen to the population when that does happen?
Lets kick it up a notch for giggles and grins. Instead of ransomware, lets say someone hacks into an electrical system with the intent of bringing the system down. How hard would it be to redirect power and overload areas that would destroy equipment? How long would it take to recover? What would happen to the population when that does happen?
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
LTC (Join to see) I agree with you. It is not going to be some hacktivist that causes the most harm it will be a foreign power APT group with a coordinated effort to disable our infrastructure. It is classic military tactics, upgraded for the digital age. First thing you do, deny an enemy access to resources. Scary thing is that can be accomplished from a keyboard without putting a single soldier in harm's way in our modern age.
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LTC (Join to see)
PO3 Steven Sherrill - to quote the old Hank Williams Jr song... a country boy can survive. The urban and suburban dwellers will not make out too well. The local grocery stores will be out of food in a day or two. While us country folk can take care of business in nature, I really don't see an apartment dweller walking down who knows how many flights of stairs when nature calls.
I figure that in the urban areas society would completely break down after about three days and street gangs would control the cities.
I figure that in the urban areas society would completely break down after about three days and street gangs would control the cities.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
LTC (Join to see) - That is what a balcony is for! I think you are optimistic to think that it would last three days. I disagree about gangs too. They would control small sections, but if they tried to expand, they would be met by regular citizens armed, and nothing to lose by shooting first. I think grocery stores would be looted within a day. I mean during Irma there were assholes out looting during the storm. Country folks would not only survive, I think they would keep their civility far longer. When a community lives by the mantra of neighbor helping neighbor, a loss of government infrastructure just brings out what they have been doing to a higher degree. Look at the floods in Iowa and the tornadoes in the midwest, they always bring out communities to help each other. My house is gone, but my neighbor thinks his mom is trapped in her house, lets go find mom first, I can dig out later.
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I think most of us would be toast. Well, at least those who live on the coasts. Many in the rest of the country are pretty self-sufficient. Those who aren't should move east or west until they reach an ocean.
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