Timed in conjunction with the fifth annual National Cyber Security Awareness (NCSA) Month in October, the initiative provides corporations with informative research, tools, technologies, solutions and best practices vital for companies and federal agencies evaluating or re-evaluating their approach to critical infrastructure protection.
Critical infrastructure comprises all computer systems that can be targets of criminal threats, industrial espionage and/or politically motivated sabotage such as the power grid, water supply, railways, nuclear energy plants and more. Attacks on such networks can cause loss of life, threaten public safety, impact national security, or create economic upheaval or environmental disaster.
"Even though businesses and government agencies know they need to secure their networks, many don't have the in-house expertise or time it takes to fully secure systems," explained Scott Montgomery, vice president, global technical strategy, Secure Computing. "We want to elevate awareness so that they understand how to change behaviour to make security a high priority." |
