The core element of the country’s approach to critical infrastructure security and resilience is defining what is critical, establishing working relationships among the parties that own and operate ...

Every day, Americans rely on critical infrastructure to power our daily lives whether we realize it or not. From the energy that heats our homes and keeps the lights on, to the water that we drink, ...

In recent years, cyber attacks on the nation’s critical infrastructure have been relentless. In 2025, that pattern unfortunately continues as emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence are ...

Cyberattacks against critical infrastructure are always big news, but recent headlines have once again thrust the threat faced by Western democracies from foreign powers in this domain back onto the ...

Nick Reese is the cofounder and managing partner of Frontier Foundry, a data and artificial intelligence company based in Washington. He was the director of emerging technology policy at the U.S.

It’s not the federal government that’s responsible for the cyber defense of critical infrastructure. The responsibility falls on the critical infrastructure operators themselves—and most aren’t ...

In what has been described as the largest and most egregious cyberattack against United States critical infrastructure in our history, Colonial Pipeline which operates the nation’s largest fuel ...

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly testifies before a House Homeland Security Subcommittee, at the Rayburn House Office Building on April 28, 2022, in Washington, D ...

A high-level blueprint that designates critical sectors of the U.S. economy in need of protection against cyber threats has received a long-sought update from the White House, though it notably does ...

As has been made clear in many incident reports and by the FBI, in 2022, one-third of cyber-attacks targeted critical infrastructure. The frequency and severity of ransomware attacks on critical ...

The number of attacks launched on critical infrastructure by nation state groups doubled in the past year, according to the 2022 Microsoft Digital Defense Report. In the period from July 2021 to June ...

The new law seeks to regulate critical infrastructure operators responsible for “continuous delivery of essential services” and “maintaining important societal and economic activities.” The article ...