Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructure Sectors: A Proactive Approach to Ensure Inevitable Laws and Regulations are Effective

Today, our government and the critical infrastructure sectors that provide essential services to Americans are constantly under attack. These institutions face sophisticated cyberattacks from individual hackers, coordinated hacker organizations, terrorist groups, and enemy nation-states. Over the past decade, the frequency, scale, and intensity of attacks have continually increased. The current patchwork of cybersecurity laws and regulations is not sufficient to protect U.S. national security. Additional cybersecurity laws and regulations are not just necessary, they are inevitable. Thus, private companies, Congress, and agencies should focus on developing them in a way that ensures a high level of protection and promulgating them before a major attack occurs.