Center for Infrastructure Protection & Homeland Security

In the News – This Week in Critical Infrastructure: Week of October 24, 2016

This Week in Critical Infrastructure, in keeping with the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we bring three articles discussing vital cybersecurity topics that have […]

From the Director – September/October 2016

Welcome to the September/October issue of The CIP Report, in which our focus is on the cyber dimension of Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience. October […]

Understanding Physical Internet Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

Michael Thompson Risk and Infrastructure Science Center, Argonne National Laboratory Introduction The United States economy, as well as large portions of the critical infrastructure that […]

Securing the Internet of Things

Taz Daughtrey On September 11, 2001, we discovered that a commercial jetliner could be repurposed from a transportation device into an aerial weapon. Security efforts […]

International Cyber Incident Repository System: Information Sharing on a Global Scale

Amanda L. Joyce and Nathaniel Evans, PhD Risk and Infrastructure Science Center, Argonne National Laboratory Introduction Information sharing is essential for protecting against increasingly sophisticated […]

In the News – This Week in Critical Infrastructure: Week of October 17, 2016

This Week in Critical Infrastructure, we bring you articles discussing new efforts to strengthen cybersecurity for banks and the commercial aviation sector, as well as […]

Security of Electronic Voting in the United States

Charity King and Michael Thompson Risk and Infrastructure Science Center, Argonne National Laboratory Introduction In the midst of numerous high-profile cyber attacks, the United States […]

The Cyber-Security Industrial Policy: The Challenges of Structuring a Complex Dialogue

Danilo D’Elia In the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s intelligence revelations, many governments around the world are increasingly elaborating so-called “digital sovereignty”  policies. The declared aim […]

In the News – This Week in Critical Infrastructure: Week of October 10, 2016

This Week in Critical Infrastructure, we bring you articles discussing army concerns related to infrastructure vulnerabilities to cyber attacks during natural disasters, the performance of […]

The Problem with a New Elections System Critical Infrastructure Sector

Stephen Jackson, J.D., Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security Introduction On August 18, 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Cyber Division issued a […]