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Updated 12/19/08
Cyber Security Advisories
(posted 8/25/08)
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Recent Phishing Activity
Water
Sector Cyber Security Roadmap
The Water Sector Coordinating Council
Cyber Security Working Group has released
The
Roadmap to Secure Control Systems in the
Water Sector. This
work was undertaken as a result of the
urgent need to secure cyber systems. The
document presents a strategic framework
that considers the risks and
vulnerabilities of water and wastewater
utility process control systems, and
identifies milestones for utilities in
securing systems over the next ten years.
Water industry leaders strategize that
implementing this roadmap will result in
process control systems throughout the water
sector but with no loss of critical function
in vital applications during and after a
cyber event. This vision confronts the
overwhelming technical, business,
operational, and societal challenges that
lie ahead in strengthening the resilience of
critical systems against increasingly
sophisticated cyber attacks.
The
Roadmap
integrates the expertise of a broad
cross-section of asset owners and operators,
industrial control systems experts, and
government leaders, who met during workshops
held in September and December 2007. The
Roadmap
was developed by the Water Sector
Coordinating Council Cyber Security Working
Group with support from the Department of
Homeland Security National Cyber Security
Division and the American Water Works
Association.
(posted 4/15/08)
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Cyber Terror
Threat
Thus far, there have been no
known successful cyber attacks conducted by al
Qaeda sympathizers or affiliates against
US national infrastructure.
The federal government has
placed increased emphasis on the cyber threat,
citing it in the Annual Threat Assessment of
the Director of National Intelligence,
released in February 2008, and hosting the
nation’s largest cyber security exercise,
Cyber Storm II, in March 2008.
Cyber attacks in
New Jersey have been carried
out by local animal rights extremists
employing low-level techniques targeting
Internet sites and e-mail systems of companies
and businesses associated with animal research
programs. (posted 4/14/08)
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The Division of
Local Government Services and the State
Office of Information Technology
are continuing its efforts to link
government technology coordinators
throughout the State using GovConnect.
This initiative will help public agency
technology coordinators work with their
peers and deliver a higher quality
service to the public. If your agency's
tech coordinator has not been receiving
e-mail from us about technology issues,
they should sign up for the service at:
www.nj.gov/dca/surveys/tcsurvey.htm
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