Keeping America Safe: Toward More Secure Networks for Critical Sectors

The digital systems that control critical infrastructure in the US and most other countries are easily penetrated and architecturally weak, and we have known it for a long time. This report proposes a policy and research agenda that has the potential to achieve significantly higher levels of security in critical networks over a five-to ten-year period. But the nation must begin now. our goal is action, both immediate and long-term.