Emerging Threats and Countermeasures

In today's world, both government and the private sector are struggling to provide a secure, efficient, timely, and separate means of delivering essential services internationally. As a result, these critical national infrastructure systems remain at risk from potential attacks via the Internet.

It is the policy of the United States to prevent or minimize disruptions to the critical national information infrastructure in order to protect the public, the economy, government services, and the national security of the United States.The Federal Government is continually increasing capabilities to address cyber risk associated with critical networks and information systems.

Please explain how you would reduce potential vulnerabilities, protect against intrusion attempts, and better anticipate future threats.

You must do the following:

1) In order to post your initial response, create a new thread. As indicated above, please explain how you would reduce potential vulnerabilities, protect against intrusion attempts, and better anticipate future threats. The initial response should be a minimum of 400 words and include a minimum of two scholarly references (papers published in peer-reviewed journals). 

2) Select AT LEAST 2 other students' threads and post substantive peer responses. The peer responses should be a minimum of 200 words and include a minimum of one scholarly reference (paper published in peer-reviewed journals