It recently reported that 70 percent of its 156 mission-critical systems are now compliant.
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Certificate attacks will be with us as long as MD5 based certificates are used to authenticate critical systems.
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Along with dissuading their actions, we must better protect the critical systems that support our way of life.
We can capture a lot of knowledge and make it available to production teams to ensure continued availability of mission critical systems.
Improve physical security of critical systems, especially domain name and root servers.
These conditions, if not corrected, could result in damage to critical systems and structures, and the potential for fire in the electrical compartment.
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But there is a need for far more robust planning for restoring critical systems quickly and getting communities back on their feet again.
While cables serve as secure communications links to critical systems, wireless connections are susceptible to hackers, which opens the door to myriad potential problems.
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Last Friday, the FAA announced a comprehensive review of the 787's critical systems with the possibility of further action pending new data and information.
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Triage to give mission-critical systems top priority has become the norm.
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Internal and external threats reach new levels of sophistication every day, and a deeper level of insight into critical systems is key to fending off threats.
Networking revenue was up 6%, Industry Standard Servers revenue was down 3%, Business Critical Systems revenue was down 16%, and Storage revenue was down 5% year over year.
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Networking revenue was up 2%, Industry Standard Servers revenue was down 6%, Business Critical Systems revenue was down 23%, and Storage revenue was up 1% year over year.
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Failure to adequately invest in energy, transportation, communications, and other infrastructure practically guarantees the failure of critical systems when they are placed under the stress of extreme events.
In fact, the authentication techniques used to identity the king are similar to the identity-management techniques we apply in software and hardware to secure critical systems and applications.
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All the critical systems in a modern car -- engine, transmission, brakes, stability controls -- are linked to a single electronic system called the Controller Area Network bus, or CAN bus.
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And while Durkee knows he took a risk with an unproven technology, he thinks his success has served as a proof of concept for established companies that are reluctant to take a chance with Linux on their mission-critical systems.
Clarke was more optimistic about administration proposals to impose greater cybersecurity standards on private owners and operators of civilian critical infrastructure systems.
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But the vulnerability of critical infrastructure systems, mostly owned by the private sector, has slowly emerged as a real threat to national security.
Little doubt remains that the Stuxnet worm represents one of the most sophisticated digital attacks on critical infrastructure systems that cybersecurity researchers have ever seen.
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Most recently, we have seen an increased interest in targeting public and private critical infrastructure systems by actors who seek to threaten our national and economic security.
But just because an electricity company's customers can pay their bills online, it does not necessarily follow that the company's critical control systems are vulnerable to attack.
Operators of critical infrastructure systems that people rely on for life-sustaining services have the added responsibility of ensuring their systems are at least protected with industry-consensus best practices.
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From there, within six months, the President will be required to institute accreditation requirements for cybersecurity professionals working within the Federal Government and on designated critical information systems.
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Unknown hackers, perhaps a world away, had inserted malicious software into the computer networks of private-sector companies that operate most of our transportation, water and other critical infrastructure systems.
Defense contractors, who possess sensitive military data, are particularly likely to be monitored by the new Einstein program, and critical infrastructure systems are also likely to fall under its surveillance.
But research in recent years has shown an increasingly complex picture in which the bugs play significant roles in several critical bodily systems, having already been implicated in obesity, asthma, and liver function.
Last May, the Administration sent a legislative proposal to the Congress that would give the Federal government and private sector new tools to ensure our most vital critical infrastructure systems are properly secured.
The sensitivity over the public-private partnership remains a hotly debated issue in Washington, as lawmakers try to come up with legislation that would require acceptable minimum security standards for companies that operate critical infrastructure systems.
The current discussion about 21st century skills leads classrooms and other learning environments to encourage the development of core subject knowledge as well as new media literacies, critical and systems thinking, interpersonal and self-directional skills.
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