Security News > 2020 > June > Defending critical national infrastructure... hmm. Does Zoom count as critical now?
Does your IT security model take into account things like pacemakers? According to Dr Victoria Baines, speaking at Infosec Europe, "We also perhaps neglect the idea that critical infrastructure might be inside people" as well as merely carried in their pockets.
Baines was speaking during a panel webinar about protecting critical national infrastructure.
"How do we protect those from commodity cyber attacks, even DDoSes against specific companies? There is, of course, the challenge that it's quite clear for CNI that they are CNI. It's very clear in law, there's things like the various regulations around those topics. Especially the NIS regulations from Europe. They are built with that resilience and redundancy and impact mindset in mind. It's far harder to see from emerging IT infrastructures what we want to protect there."
Ledum Maeba, head of Avanti's infosec division concurred, adding: "No matter the technology you have in place, to fight attacks - cyber attacks, if there's no national commitment and support it's very difficult."
The National Cyber Security Centre's Paul Chichester also agreed, adding his view from the UK government CNI protection perspective.