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UnDisruptable27 Project Wants to Shore Up Critical Infrastructure Security

UnDisruptable27 Project Wants to Shore Up Critical Infrastructure Security

In Dark Reading, IST’s Josh Corman & Megan Stifel and funder Craig Newmark explain the need for UnDisruptable27. “Whether it’s food or shelter or warmth, everyone relies on infrastructure to live. Bad actors know that,” Craig said. “This isn’t alarmism.”

cyber attacks, Cyber Civil Defense, infrastructure, security

September 11, 2024

Cyber Initiative Pegs 2027 as Infrastructure Defense Deadline

Cyber Initiative Pegs 2027 as Infrastructure Defense Deadline

“The project, which is called UnDisruptable27, wants society to prepare for near-future geopolitical conflicts in which cyber attacks are aimed at Americans’ access to water, medical care, power and food,” writes Government Technology’s Jule Pattison-Gordon.

2027, critical infrastructure, cyber attacks, geopolitical conflict

August 14, 2024

IST pilot targets preparing hospitals, water systems for China-backed cyber threats

IST pilot targets preparing hospitals, water systems for China-backed cyber threats

Josh Corman sat down with Inside Cybersecurity’s Jacob Livesay to discuss the project and its aims. “For a long time, I’ve been saying we’re over-dependent on undependable things,” Josh explained.

critical infrastructure, cyber, hospital cybersecurity, water

August 14, 2024

A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks

A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks

WIRED's Lily Hay Newman interviewed Josh Corman on the launch of UnDisruptable27. "A longtime critical infrastructure security researcher is launching a project to communicate with utility operators, municipalities, and regular people in creative ways about both urgency and optimism around protecting critical infrastructure now,” writes Newman.

BSides, China, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity

August 6, 2024

Unlocking U.S. Technological Competitiveness: Proposing Solutions to Public-Private Misalignments

Unlocking U.S. Technological Competitiveness: Proposing Solutions to Public-Private Misalignments

This concept paper, the third and last working paper in the series, lays out how a third round of working group meetings further explored those initial solutions, building out specific ways to operationalize them, identifying specific questions that need to be addressed to achieve these goals, and suggesting potential mechanisms for achieving them

biotech, China, energy, industrial strategy, quantum

June 28, 2024

The Phone-a-Friend Option: Use Cases for a U.S.-U.K.-French Crisis Communication Channel

The Phone-a-Friend Option: Use Cases for a U.S.-U.K.-French Crisis Communication Channel

This brief outlines the case for a multilateral crisis communication channel between the heads of state of the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.

France, nuclear crisis communications, United Kingdom, United States

June 26, 2024

Megan Stifel on the Impact of the Ransomware Task Force

Megan Stifel on the Impact of the Ransomware Task Force

Megan Stifel, Chief Strategy Officer for the Institute for Security and Technology, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the four years of progress and challenges experienced by the Ransomware Task Force.

Ransomware, Ransomware Task Force

Joshua Corman: Cyberdefense cuts could sap U.S. response to China hacks

Joshua Corman: Cyberdefense cuts could sap U.S. response to China hacks

In The Washington Post, IST's Joshua Corman emphasized the urgent need for initiatives like UnDisruptable27 in light of increasing threats from accidents and adversaries.

critical infrastructure, cyber attacks, UnDisruptable27

Strengthening Nuclear Crisis Communications: Steps to Implement Mesh Networks to Enhance Resilience & Security

Strengthening Nuclear Crisis Communications: Steps to Implement Mesh Networks to Enhance Resilience & Security

To advance work on secure crisis communications, IST convened a diverse group of experts for a technical workshop to explore potential avenues for improving the resilience of nuclear crisis communications networks, including IST’s CATALINK Initiative. In this report, IST’s Christian Steins shares critical takeaways from their discussion.

crisis communications, resilience, mesh network, nuclear weapon state, ROCCS

Enhancing Cyber Resilience through Insurance: Revisiting Anti-Bundling Regulation

Enhancing Cyber Resilience through Insurance: Revisiting Anti-Bundling Regulation

In Enhancing Cyber Resilience Through Insurance, authors Sophia Mauro and Taylor Grossman make the case that cyber insurance has the strategic potential to go beyond consequence management, actually helping its insureds achieve better proactive, pre-incident cybersecurity.

Ransomware, cyber insurance, risk-mitigation, cyber resilience, cyber threats, cyber risk, insurance, underwriting