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Will the US be able to withstand cyber attacks on critical infrastructure?

August 18, 2022
GZERO Staff
Will the US Be Able to Withstand Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructure? | GZERO World

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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was set up in 2018 to help protect America's critical infrastructure.

It might sound like a technical term, but CISA chief Jen Easterly explains that critical infrastructure is how we get water, power, gas — even food at the grocery store. And 80% of it is operated by the private sector.

So, how does the agency help businesses defend themselves from hackers?

"In cybersecurity, the federal government is just a partner ... so we all have to work together to drive down risk to the nation," Jen Easterly tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.

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