On the one hand, government officials and industry analysts say that cyber-warfare is a real and present danger. One the other hand, there is a lot of money to be made by overstating the threat, then selling security solutions to nervous organizations.
The lecture this week described two main reasons to attack the communications infrastructure – to damage the communications infrastructure itself, or to use it as a means to attack other systems. Consider who the attackers might be, what their goals are, and what means they might use to attack critical systems using the Internet. What do you consider to be the greatest cybersecurity threat to critical infrastructure systems today?