Cybersecurity and the railroads

摘要

Imagine waking up one morning and learning from your preferred news source that agents from an adversarial nation-state were fanned out across the country, stealing information and documents from private corporations and government agencies. This horrific news would occupy headlines of every news outlet in the country, and Americans would naturally be stunned and scared.While we haven't had headlines such as these, we might as well have. The information and investigative cyberattacks the nation has been dealing with for years, and malware placement in U.S. systems by bad actors, have the same impact as physical invasion or attack. While not as dramatic or receiving the same amount of news coverage, our computer networks' vulnerability is shocking.