GAO Testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee, CYBERSECURITY: Threats Impacting the Nation, warns that the “nation faces an evolving array of cyber-based threats arising from a variety of sources” and that the “threat posed by cyber attacks is heightened by vulnerabilities in federal systems and systems supporting critical infrastructure.” The Testimony further warned that:
GAO has identified vulnerabilities in systems that monitor and control sensitive processes and physical functions supporting the nation’s critical infrastructures. These and similar weaknesses can be exploited by threat actors, with potentially severe effects.
The GAO report is attached below.
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