There’s Only One EverythingDefense Critical Infrastructure Protection
and the Energy Sector
Brian McKay10th EnergySec Security Summit
21 August 2014
“Let’s begin with a fundamental understanding: criticality is time and situation dependent. We can never be sure what assets will be critical.”
- Bill Bryan
The mission depends on critical assets…
…which depend on critical infrastructure
RISK = f(threat, vulnerability, criticality)
“Developing an understanding of network theory and the characterizing of infrastructure networks in a manner consistent with the theory is the first step in the process of providing for our collective security”
- COL Bruce Beebe
“DOD relies overwhelmingly on commercial electrical power …whose incapacitation or destruction would have a very serious, debilitating effect on the department’s ability to fulfill its missions”
- GAO Report
Where do we
go from here?
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