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Domestic extremists are targeting the U.S. power grid’s aging, unprotected physical infrastructure to foment chaos. Climate change will intensify the impact of their attacks.
The two TSA mandatory directives are a welcome step to ensure that pipeline owners and operators implement the basic safeguards required to repel cyberattacks. Yet certain weaknesses in the current approach need to be acknowledged.
What happened in Texas should be a warning of what Americans will face from the next generation of the internet and the new realm of cybersecurity risk it will dramatically amplify.
The problems in Texas this week were not the state’s current mix of energy resources, but that fact the state’s energy resources were not prepared to perform in the low temperatures seen. Americans must be willing to plan and invest to better confront such crises in the future.