From: DarkReading
MIT experts issue recommendations to the president, urging him to take elements of the electric grid and gas pipeline offline – but other security experts say that ship has sailed.
Experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and stakeholders from US critical infrastructure companies weighed in today with a host of recommendations for the Trump administration on how to take meaningful action to protect the nation’s vital systems. In addition to the usual advice to quit delaying a decision, the experts’ report took a stand by suggesting that critical components of the electrical grid and gas pipeline need to be taken offline.
The advice comes by way of a major report out from MIT’s Internet Policy Research Initiative at the Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The report is the culmination of a year’s worth of work reaching out to stakeholders across four major economic sectors: electricity, finance, communications, and oil and natural gas. Written by a group of luminaries headed by principal author Joel Brenner, a former inspector general for the National Security Agency, the report offers a handful of pointed recommendations to the president about how critical infrastructure security coordination needs to be expeditiously advanced.
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