Security News > 2024 > March > Public anxiety mounts over critical infrastructure resilience to cyber attacks

With temporary failures of critical infrastructure on the rise in the recent years, 81% of US residents are worried about how secure critical infrastructure may be, according to MITRE and The Harris Poll.

Public views cyberattacks as greatest risk to critical infrastructure.

"Threats to our nation's critical infrastructure have heightened dramatically as the Chinese Communist Party and others have accelerated their capacity to conduct cyberattacks on our systems," said Charles Clancy, Ph.D., SVP and CTO, MITRE. "The MITRE-Harris Poll shows that the public is worried about these threats to the vital services we depend on every day, and MITRE is in a unique position to connect government and critical infrastructure providers to take steps now to secure them."

The US public considers cyberattacks, terrorism, and aging/failing infrastructure to be the greatest risks to critical infrastructure.

While 51% of the public are concerned that critical infrastructure may not recover from an attack, those numbers rise with older generations and rural residents.

The general public can prepare for attacks on critical infrastructure much like they do for storms and other natural disasters.

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