Critical Infrastructure Doesn't Care About Nationality
When news breaks that a foreign actor has targeted critical infrastructure, the headlines often focus on one question: Who did it? Was it a nation-state? A foreign intelligence service? A ransomware group operating overseas? Those are important questions, but I believe they're overshadowing a far more important one. Would we care as much if the attacker were American? We should. Critical infrastructure doesn't care about nationality. Water treatment plants, dams, electrical grids, hospitals, and transportation systems don't distinguish between a command issued from another continent or another country. The consequences can be exactly the same, and that is where we need to focus.
The Wake-Up Call You Needed.
The question that should concern defenders is not only who was behind the keyboard. It's why they were able to get there in the first place. Over the last several years, a series of incidents involving dams, water utilities, and critical infrastructure...
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