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Attacks on our national infrastructure are already happening. And the expectation is that they will continue to increase at an accelerated rate. For this week's discussion, we'll cover threats to our nation's pipelines. To get started, read this article:
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060054924
After reading the article, start a discussion thread and discuss how the types of threats discussed in the article could impact our economy, and how implementing Commonality (as discussed in chapter 5) could help mitigate these threats.
You must do this following:
1) Create a new thread. As indicated above, discuss how the types of threats discussed in the article referenced above could impact our economy, and how implementing Diversity and Commonality (as discussed in chapters 4 and 5) could help mitigate these threats.
Requirements :
Please provide at least 500 words with minimum of 4 references/ citations and no plagiarism.
Explanation & Answer
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Emerging Threats Prompt
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Impacts of Threats on Economy
Hacking as a key type of cyber threat on the nation’s pipeline is attributed to adverse
implications to the economy. Firstly, this kind of a cyber attack on the country’s pipeline can be
attributed to blackout to the major parts of the country that depend on natural gas as power
generation sources. According to Sobczak, Northey, and Behr (2017), cutting off a key gas
pipelines could lead to blackout states especially in areas which lack other sources of electricity.
Consequently, the blackout caused by such cyber attacks would hinder various activities such as
transportation. Secondly, the attacks on the nation’s pipeline would also affect the production of
products within the affected regions. The cutoff of gas supply would hinder t...
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