Week Six Discussion One
Explain the five sectors– communications, information technology, chemical, healthcare, and public health, and defense industrial base. What are the risks to each? What are the countermeasures for each sector?
Read:
Communications Sector
DHS Communications Sector https://www.dhs.gov/communications-sector
DHS Communications Sector-Specific Plan – 2015 https://www.dhs.gov/publication/nipp-ssp-communications-2015
Communications: A Rapidly Evolving Threat Environment https://www.federaltimes.com/smr/critical-infrastructure/2016/07/11/communications-a-rapidly-evolving-threat-environment/
Vulnerability of U.S. Communications Infrastructure http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2017/12/15/vulnerability-of-us-communications-infrastructure
Information Technology Sector
DHS Information Technology Sector https://www.dhs.gov/information-technology-sector
DHS Information Technology Sector-Specific Plan – 2016 https://www.dhs.gov/publication/nipp-ssp-information-technology-2016
Review the links within DHS’s Cybersecurity topic https://www.dhs.gov/topic/cybersecurity
Top 10 Data Breaches – Biggest Hacks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96VDo2yv3-g
OR 25 BIGGEST Data Breaches of All Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fulPBjNfYeg
Chemical Sector
DHS Chemical Sector and SSA https://www.dhs.gov/chemical-sector
DHS Chemical Sector-Specific Plan – 2015 https://www.dhs.gov/publication/nipp-ssp-chemical-2015
DHS Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards https://www.dhs.gov/chemical-facility-anti-terrorism-standards
Healthcare and Public Health Sector
DHS Healthcare and Public Health Sector https://www.dhs.gov/healthcare-public-health-sector
DHS Healthcare and Public Health Sector-Specific Plan – 2015 https://www.dhs.gov/publication/nipp-ssp-healthcare-public-health-2015
Cyberterrorist Targeting Healthcare Systems, Critical Infrastructure http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-23/forget-explosives,-terrorists-are-coming-after-cyber-systems/9076786
Ebola Scare Shows that the World is Still not Ready for a Major Disease Outbreak. https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/04/ebola-congo-disease-outbreak/
Defense Industrial Base Sector
DHS Defense Industrial Base Sector https://www.dhs.gov/defense-industrial-base-sector
DHS Defense Industrial Base Sector-Specific Plan – 2010 https://www.dhs.gov/publication/nipp-ssp-defense-industrial-base-2010
Presidential Executive Order on Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resilience of the United States https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-assessing-strengthening-manufacturing-defense-industrial-base-supply-chain-resiliency-united-states/
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