The Crown and Crossed Swords Hotel Picture: Google streetview A COUNTY DURHAM pub that once made 37 kinds of blades could see its beer garden extended according to plans submitted to Durham County Council. The Crown and Crossed Swords Hotel, on Front Street in Shotley, Consett, could have its beer garden extended to make use of wasted ground that is currently heavily overgrown. According to the Heritage Statement, improvements have already been made to the existing beer garden “including wider gate access for disabled use, a flatter and hazard free paved area on one level, and a more open friendly covid friendly layout.”
Is It Really 85 Percent?
Every time a piece of critical infrastructure is stressed by a cyber incident, the public conversation inevitably includes some discussion of the need for a public-private partnership in defending the domain. In the aftermath of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware incident, that discussion has popped up, among other places, in the New York Times reporting [1] on the incident and the Biden administration’s possible response.
Buried in the Times story is the commonplace assertion that public-private coordination is necessary because 85 percent of the nation’s critical infrastructure is owned by the private sector. The Times isn’t unique in its reliance on this data point as a guide to policymaking leaders like FBI Director Christopher Wray [2] and Sen. Angus King [3] have also publicly referred to it in recent days. It’s not clear exactly why the Times invoked the figure, but presumably this statistic is offered to contrast the American reality with that
Is It Really 85 Percent?
A Colonial Pipeline petroleum farm in North Carolina in 2006 (J.B./https://flic.kr/p/s4BCU/CC BY-ND 2.0/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/)
Every time a piece of critical infrastructure is stressed by a cyber incident, the public conversation inevitably includes some discussion of the need for a public-private partnership in defending the domain. In the aftermath of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware incident, that discussion has popped up, among other places, in the New York Times reporting on the incident and the Biden administration’s possible response.
Buried in the Times story is the commonplace assertion that public-private coordination is necessary because 85 percent of the nation’s critical infrastructure is owned by the private sector. The Times isn’t unique in its reliance on this data point as a guide to policymaking leaders like FBI Director Christopher Wray and Sen. Angus King have also publicly referred to it in recent days.