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It might be critical, but infrastructure in the United States has remained stubbornly difficult to protect from cyber and physical attacks. Now the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has a new five-year plan for an important subset of critical infrastructure, namely industrial control systems. With details of the plan, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the deputy assistant director of cybersecurity at CISA, Richard Driggers.
Tom Temin: Mr Driggers, good to have you on
Richard Driggers: Good morning. Thank you for having me.
Tom Temin: What is the fundamental challenge in protecting control systems? Earlier, 20 years ago, none of them were connected generally to the internet, and now they all are,. Is that the basic problem here?
Richard Driggers: I mean, I think that that’s the crux of it. I mean, the biggest challenge is a lot of these ICS devices that we find in our critical infrastructure, they were installed a long time ago and really used to create efficiencies internal into the facility. And so…
