National infrastructures under increasing cyber threat

National infrastructures under increasing cyber threat

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33647996_mCritical national infrastructures are under constant threat that is increasing constantly because of three factores put together: Globalization, technological advances and the increase of world terror. For some time now, attacks are carried out meant to damage different countries’ infratructure, and if these attacks can bypass security, it could mean many dead and wounded as well as a fatal blow to the economy of the nation under attack. If a globally significant country is economically damaged, it could have a chain reaction on globacl economy as a whole. It’s no wonder, then, that the race towards advanced security sollutions is at such high pace, with no end in sight.

The strategy for security industries to coping with critical cyber threats is made of three guidelines: Developing new defence systems with better performance at the same price rate, upgrading and refurbishing existing security systems and a better quality service for supporting products delivered to different security facilities. It’s expected that in the future more technological security systems will be developed, which will reduce the need for human factors, thus lowering the cost of the work force and minimizing the space for human error. The reason that this field is advancing in such full force is that weak spots are constantly being discovered, this in spite of the general awareness of threat for national infrastructures. There’s no one method that’s thought of being thre best for securing these critical infrastructures and so the main working premise is that several defence measures must be combines to work simultaneously.

On the 23rd of June this year, the Israeli Export & International Cooperation Institute will organize a conference day on the issue on Infrastructure Defense, as, according to the institute, between the years 2014-2022, security factors for national infrastructures will have to face several challenges:

  1. As this a game of cat and mouse between security systems and potential attackers, the security systems will have go through constant processes of improvement.
  2. Security systems must face a wide range of threats so they mustn’t be monotonous and must keep changing.
  3. In order to make the assimilation process into existing security systems easier, future systems must be able to go through fast and smooth integration.

The Export institution expects that future systems will be fully automatic, far beyond those existing in the market today, which will prevent human errors from occuring almost completely. On top of that, automatization will allow systems to do check-ups and analyses in a faster and more efficient way, thus detecting an attack much sooner.