Week 9 discussion and week1 discussion

National infrastructure provides a platform for support systems that enable the delivery of extensive services considered important for running the nation. The government is obligated with providing some of the key services while others are provided by the private sector groups such as banks, shipping lines, airlines, and internet service providers among others. There also exists a scenario where some of the essential services required in a specific nation are sourced from another hence creating global interdependency. The interdependence trend is referred to as a “flat world.” The national infrastructure is mainly reliant on computer networks and systems which facilitate remote access over the internet. This makes it vulnerable to cyber-attacks through worms, computer viruses, fiber cuts, and data leaks (Amoroso, 2011).  The conventional approaches to data security adopted for the national infrastructure have not been sufficient.

           One of the major challenges to fully securing the national infrastructure is the high cost of implementing security tools. The government and the commercial enterprises rely on off-shelf data security products to reduce the cost other than acquiring the recent enterprise system security tools. Further, manual intercession by local experts who collaborate in an event of a serious security breach on the national infrastructure is highly controlled to avoid legal repercussions for sharing private data. This limits the effectiveness in adopting a unified approach towards data security (Benson, McAlaney & Frumkin, 2019). The book provides an overview of national infrastructure system protection methodologies based on recent data security trends. The government and the private sector must identify potential solutions to all potential security threats to avoid infrastructural breach disasters. The government and commercial enterprises should provide a comprehensive review of all vulnerabilities of the national infrastructure. What types of plan or security devices can be implemented by the government to ensure that our national infrastructure is safe?

References

Amoroso, E., G. (2011).  Emerging Threats & Countermeasures (ITS834). Elsevier.

Benson, V., McAlaney, J., & Frumkin, L. A. (2019). Emerging threats for the human element and countermeasures in current cyber security landscape. In Cyber Law, Privacy, and Security: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1264-1269). IGI Global.