Your Critical Infrastructure Security Program will Fail Without Security Awareness Training

This month, our authors discuss aspects of Cybersecurity as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework approaches its one year anniversary. First, Mykhaylo Bulyk, Dr. William Horsthemke and Dr. Nathaniel Evans of the Argonne National Laboratory present an overview of offensive cybersecurity in the NIST Cybersecurity framework.

George R. Cotter, a retired career cryptologist at the NSA, then discusses a case study on cybersecurity for critical infrastructure protection for the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Next, Danilo D’Elia, a Ph.D candidate at the University of Paris VIII Saint-Denis and research associate at Chaire Castex de Cyberstrategie (Paris), examines the public-private partnership angle from the French experience on critical infrastructure protection. Parham Eftekhari, Co-Founder and Sr. Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) and Marjorie V. Perry, Director, Cybersecurity Education and Training, Covenant Security Solutions, Inc. highlight the necessity to change the attitudes towards security awareness to protect critical national infrastructures. Finally, Dennis Pitman, Research Assistant at the Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS), gives an overview of recent and potential upcoming cybersecurity initiatives from Congress and the White House.

In October’s CIP Report, we provided an early overview of the Mason – IBM – NSF Cybersecurity Research Workshop that took place on July 11, 2014.

I’m pleased to report that the workshop report “Cybersecurity and Smart Grid Leadership” from that very informative event is now available. You can access and download the conference report at this link:

http://goo.gl/xuMmYb. Findings from all aspects of the projects will be unveiled and vetted at the Mason-IBMNSF Cybersecurity Leadership and Smart Grid Conference on April 30, 2015 at Hyatt Fair Lakes in Fairfax, Virginia. The URL for the registration information for that conference is: http://goo.gl/v4zq97 We would like to take this opportunity to thank this month’s contributors. We truly appreciate your valuable insight.

We hope you find this issue of The CIP Report useful and informative. We are thankful for your support and the rich dialogue that follows each topic.

Best Regards,

(Mark Troutman, PhD Director, Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS) )

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