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The attack on a critical US artery for the transport of fuel has once again exposed the vulnerabilities of the energy industry to cyber attacks. The ransomware attack on the 2.5 million barrels per day Colonial Pipeline endangered access to fuel for the US East Coast. The pipeline, which was built in the 1960s, snakes across a distance of 8,850 kilometres and carries products sufficient to meet the total consumption of Germany, Europe’s largest economy and the world’s fourth-biggest.
So what makes the energy industry a target for attacks and why is it vulnerable?
Any impact on the energy sector can affect entire communities and even countries. An attack on a power plant or a pipeline can cause widespread blackouts, impact transportation, heating, and the functioning of critical activities in the economy.
Collaboration key to success of UK’s Cyber Security Council
The founders of the UK’s Cyber Security Council have been setting out their plans to professionalise the cyber sector at the NCSC’s CyberUK 2021 event
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Collaboration in the cyber security sector will be critical in meeting the goals of the UK’s new Cyber Security Council, according to its founders, who formally launched the initiative – designed to professionalise the security trade and drive new talent towards the sector – at the end of March 2021, despite some well-publicised hiccups along the way.
Co-opting cybersecurity in Egypt
Nesma Nasr, an Egyptian textile engineer, works on her computer at her home in Cairo, Egypt March 26, 2021. Picture taken March 26, 2021. REUTERS/Hanaa Habib
Cybersecurity is a key area of contest for digitalized politics, especially in uncertain and turbulent situations. Nowhere is this more starkly illustrated than in states such as Egypt, where the period since the January 2011 revolution has seen several changes of government and the subsequent consolidation of executive power in the military, increasingly strict limits on free speech, and extensive violence by Islamist groups against the state and civilian targets and by the state against protesters and dissidents.
Ciaran Martin: Six security tests for the new cyber strategy
The government’s Integrated Review revealed that the government planning to publish a new cyber security strategy. Ciaran Martin, the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, tells us what to look out for in it
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06 May 2021
The signature achievement of the government’s Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Foreign and Development policy was a coherent plan to base future security and prosperity on scientific and technological excellence. The plan has everything need to give it strategic credibility: funding, policy, legislative and governance changes.
But one underdeveloped part of this part of the document is cyberspace. Despite a narrative emphasis on Britain as a ‘cyber power’ there were no new policies of pounds. The only new ‘announcement’ was that there would be a national cyber strategy later this year. Intriguingly, this is to be a ‘whole of cyber’ strategy, rep
investment will support cyber security research and development, commercialization, and skills and talent development
OTTAWA, ON, May 6, 2021 /CNW/ - With the digital economy continuing to grow rapidly, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber security is an ever-increasing concern for Canadians and businesses. A strong cyber security sector will cement Canadians trust in the digital economy. That is why the Government of Canada is committed to ensuring Canada is a global leader in cyber security innovation and talent development.
Today, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, launched the new Cyber Security Innovation Network program. This program is being launched with an investment of $80 million over four years.