Cybersecurity (2020 Transition): Difference between revisions

Cyber threats to the energy sector are growing in number and sophistication. The Intelligence Community’s 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment stated: “[[China]], [[Russia]], Iran, and [[North Korea]] increasingly use cyber operations to threaten both minds and machines in an expanding number of ways—to steal information, to influence our citizens, or to disrupt critical infrastructure. China has the ability to launch cyber-attacks that cause localized, temporary disruptive effects on critical infrastructure— such as disruption of a natural gas pipeline for days to weeks— in the United States. Russia has the ability to execute cyber-attacks in the United States that generate localized, temporary disruptive effects on critical infrastructure— such as disrupting an electrical distribution network for at least a few hours—similar to those demonstrated in [[Ukraine]] in 2015 and 2016. Moscow is mapping our critical infrastructure with the long-term goal of being able to cause substantial damage.