Chapter 10 ET&C

Chapter – 4

Presidential Order Evaluation

The president will hold heads of official divisions and offices (office heads) responsible

for lead the cybersecurity hazard to their enterprises. It is the approach of the United States to lead

the cybersecurity chance as an official branch enterprise. Office heads will be considered

responsible by the president to execute risk management estimates proportionate with the risk and

volume of the danger and for consenting to key, operational and budgetary arranging forms.

Going forward, every organization head will utilize the NIST Framework for Improving

Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, and handover an executive report to the Secretary of

Homeland Security and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) inside 90

days of the date of this request. It will incorporate

I. Any hazard acknowledgment the organization has picked

ii. Organization's arrangement to execute the NIST Framework

The executive branch will hold up the cybersecurity risk management efforts of the owners

and administrators of the country's basic foundation. The Secretary of Homeland Security, in a

joint effort with other applicable offices, will write about the acceptability of existing government

strategies and practices to advance proper market straightforwardness of cybersecurity risk

management by basic foundation substances, with an emphasis on traded on an open market basic

framework elements, inside 90 days of the date of this request.

The official branch advances an open, interoperable, dependable and secure Internet that

encourages effectiveness, development, correspondence, and monetary success while regarding

protection and guarding against disturbance, misrepresentation, and robbery. The executive branch

also supports the extension and sustainment and sustainment of a workforce that is experienced in

cybersecurity and related fields. The Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Homeland Security

inside 120 days of the date of this request, will submit a report with discoveries and proposals in

regards to how to help the development and sustainment of the country's cybersecurity workforce

in both the general population and private divisions.

References:

http://www.ncsl.org/Portals/1/Documents/statefed/Presidential_Executive_Order_on_Strengthening_t

he_Cybersecurity_28292.pdf

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-strengthening-

cybersecurity-federal-networks-critical-infrastructure/

Chapter – 5

Cyber Threats on U.S Energy Sector

Threats on our national pipelines are on the rise today. Hackers have over and again strived

to cause massive losses by intercepting the country’s pipelines. The number of intrusions are

increasing rapidly and increased sophistication from hackers. The energy sector has a great societal

impact, and especially the population in that region (Onyeji et al., 2014). The Homeland Security

Department argues that the cyber threats are quite low but its effect is quite significant. The threat

of these cyber-attacks is so significant that they could lead to some catastrophic gas pipeline

failure.

This is a great threat to the energy system in the whole country. The interruptions discussed

above, are capable of causing significant damage to people’s livelihoods, their property and the

environment at large. Onyeji et al., (2014) contends that public owned tools could be used by

criminals to build up a possible attack. The National Pipeline Mapping system is responsible for

providing info to all with internet connections the opportunity to know here gas transmission

systems run through and nearness to schools, residential areas, schools, and other public areas. As

more automated systems are used, this is increasing the exposure to attackers.

Mitigating these threats can be actualized by diversity and commonality. Coming up with

more sophisticated systems to secure data relating to the energy sector would play a major role.

The government and the energy regulatory systems in the country are working closely with the

ICT department to build strong anti-hacking systems for gas, oil and electricity systems.

Commonality, where different players in the energy sector are brought together can work to a great

extent. The power of synergy is pooled in this case where they will be able to come up with

innovative ways to protect energy data systems from potential attackers.

References

Retreived From: https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060054924

Onyeji, I., Bazilian, M., & Bronk, C. (2014). Cyber security and critical energy infrastructure.

The Electricity Journal, 27(2), 52-60.