Securing the Nation's Critical Infrastructures: A Guide for the 2021-2025 Administration

Securing the Nation's Critical Infrastructures: A Guide for the 2021-2025 Administration is intended to help the United States Executive administration, legislators, and critical infrastructure decision-makers prioritize cybersecurity, combat emerging threats, craft meaningful policy, embrace modernization, and critically evaluate nascent technologies.

The book is divided into 18 chapters that are focused on the critical infrastructure sectors identified in the 2013 National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), election security, and the security of local and state government. Each chapter features viewpoints from an assortment of former government leaders, C-level executives, academics, and other cybersecurity thought leaders. Major cybersecurity incidents involving public sector systems occur with jarringly frequency; however, instead of rising in vigilant alarm against the threats posed to our vital systems, the nation has become desensitized and demoralized. This publication was developed to deconstruct the normalization of cybersecurity inadequacies in our critical infrastructures and to make the challenge of improving our national security posture less daunting and more manageable. To capture a holistic and comprehensive outlook on each critical infrastructure, each chapter includes a foreword that introduces the sector and perspective essays from one or more reputable thought-leaders in that space, on topics such as:

• The State of the Sector (challenges, threats, etc.)
• Emerging Areas for Innovation
• Recommendations for the Future (2021-2025) Cybersecurity Landscape

ABOUT ICIT

The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) is the nation's leading 501(c)3 cybersecurity think tank providing objective, nonpartisan research, advisory, and education to legislative, commercial, and public-sector stakeholders. Its mission is to cultivate a cybersecurity renaissance that will improve the resiliency of our Nation's 16 critical infrastructure sectors, defend our democratic institutions, and empower generations of cybersecurity leaders. ICIT programs, research, and initiatives support cybersecurity leaders and practitioners across all 16 critical infrastructure sectors and can be leveraged by anyone seeking to better understand cyber risk including policymakers, academia, and businesses of all sizes that are impacted by digital threats.

《保護國家關鍵基礎設施：2021-2025行政指南》旨在幫助美國行政當局、立法者和關鍵基礎設施決策者優先考慮網絡安全、應對新興威脅、制定有意義的政策、接受現代化、並對新興技術進行批判性評估。

該書分為18章，重點關注2013年《國家基礎設施保護計劃》（NIPP）中確定的關鍵基礎設施部門、選舉安全以及地方和州政府的安全。每一章都包含了來自前政府領導人、高級執行官、學者和其他網絡安全思想領袖的觀點。公共部門系統涉及的重大網絡安全事件頻繁發生，然而，國家並沒有對對我們重要系統的威脅提高警覺，反而變得麻木和沮喪。本出版物的目的是解構我們關鍵基礎設施中網絡安全不足的常態化現象，使改善我們國家安全姿態的挑戰變得不那麼艱巨，更容易應對。為了全面了解每個關鍵基礎設施，每一章都包括一篇引言，介紹該部門，以及來自一個或多個有聲望的思想領袖在該領域的觀點文章，主題包括：

- 部門現狀（挑戰、威脅等）
- 創新的新興領域
- 未來（2021-2025）網絡安全格局的建議

關於ICIT：

《關鍵基礎設施技術研究所（ICIT）》是美國領先的501(c)3非營利網絡安全智庫，為立法、商業和公共部門利益相關者提供客觀、無黨派的研究、諮詢和教育。其使命是培養一個網絡安全復興，提高我們國家16個關鍵基礎設施部門的韌性，捍衛我們的民主機構，並培養一代又一代的網絡安全領袖。ICIT的計劃、研究和倡議支持所有16個關鍵基礎設施部門的網絡安全領袖和從業人員，並可被任何希望更好地了解網絡風險的人士利用，包括政策制定者、學術界和受到數字威脅影響的各種規模的企業。

ABOUT THE EDITOR

As the Lead Researcher at the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), Drew Spaniel is an expert in information security and technology across the US critical infrastructure sectors. He serves the Institute as a technical expert in cybersecurity, technology, and data science, as well as emerging adversarial trends, threat actor profiling, and legislation and agency initiatives related to information security and privacy. Spaniel earned a Master of Science in Information Security, Policy, and Management from Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College and a Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics from Allegheny College.

關於編輯
作為美國關鍵基礎設施技術研究所（ICIT）的首席研究員，Drew Spaniel 是美國關鍵基礎設施領域的資訊安全和技術專家。他在該研究所擔任資訊安全、技術和數據科學的技術專家，並專注於新興對手的趨勢、威脅行為者的概述，以及與資訊安全和隱私相關的立法和機構倡議。Spaniel 擁有卡內基梅隆大學海因茲學院的資訊安全、政策和管理碩士學位，以及阿勒格尼學院應用物理學學士學位。