National Risk Management Center: 'What infrastructure is critical?'

Federal News Network: What infrastructure qualifies as critical? What functionalities do citizens most depend on? Does a cyberattack by a foreign power that doesn’t damage critical infrastructure or kill anyone count as an attack? These are some of the heavy questions the National Risk Management Center, the Homeland Security Department’s new one-stop shop aimed at protecting and sharing cyber threat information with major industries, is weighing as it begins to examine how adversaries could disrupt day-to-day life in the U.S.

“That’s really the first effort of this National Risk Management Center, is to identify what those critical functions are in coordination with industry.

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