Critical infrastructure now being pushed in to a defense bill?

For quite awhile, there has been talk about critical infrastructure. Why critical infrastructure is on the Internet to run from anywhere, I don’t know. Be that as it may, we’re here and we know that this is a problem.

Take the water supply hack that we talked about on podcast 52.

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The post has a link to the podcast for those who want to listen to it.

This is only one such hacks that you’ll find when doing searches from around the Internet. I may have covered some, but just don’t rely on what I’m posting, as there is no way I can cover every single thing out there and it isn’t my goal to do so.

I do like blogging, but there’s so much that I couldn’t have time to read it all and I can’t. I’ve even had to do mass deletes of things because they never got blogged.

Now to the topic at hand. I did read this Cyberscoop article titled Langevin pushes for critical infrastructure protections in annual defense bill which may have some promise. Why does it seem that we’re talking about doing things in bills and the like just to get them done?

The gentleman’s name is Jim Langevin, and his name is linked within the article. He “chairs the House Armed Services panel’s cyber subcommittee and served on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission — has drafted an amendment to match the commission’s recommendation to boost defenses for “systemically important critical infrastructure (SICI).””

There’s lots to this and even some llinks, but we should’ve done this after the first hack that luckily didn’t do any damage, or the discussion in last year’s podcast where things could’ve been bad but weren’t thanks to an alert employee who was working on the machine that was messed with.

If it didn’t happen in Florida, it could have happened elsewhere with pretty serious consequences. Your thoughts on this are welcome.