Acting CISA chief warns major critical infrastructure disruptions are inevitable, urges resilience focus
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Eric Geller
Summary
Acting CISA Director Nick Andersen warned that major disruptions to U.S. critical infrastructure are inevitable, emphasizing that cybersecurity resilience — rather than pure prevention — is the new strategic focus. Speaking at ICS Village and the Institute for Security and Technology's Critical Effect conference, Andersen framed the current cyber landscape as a persistent, ongoing conflict with adversaries like China, where critical infrastructure must be hardened to withstand and recover from attacks.
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