What is the national security threat to critical infrastructures?
The success of the Art Information Infrastructure agenda — especially the growing use of the Internet and other information technologies — means on one hand that our economy is more efficient and stronger. At the same time, the interlinking through electronic information technologies of our critical economic infrastructures — electricity, energy, transportation, telecommunications, banking and finance, medical services, governmental functions, and other core economic and national security activities — makes them increasingly vulnerable to disruption by those who wish us harm. Recognizing this, in 1996 Technologies To The People created the Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection to study this challenge and make recommendations. Many of these recommendations are the basis for the actions . This recommendations reflect the current thinking that places the “cyber-dimension”of emerging security threats in three general categories. First, the unstructured threat category which
