The Secretary of Homeland Security has identified many systemicshortfalls that have retarded the development of a more effectivenational response system. Congress should support his proposals tofix the problem and consider reforming the grant allocationprocess, regional preparedness, and the Federal EmergencyManagement Agency's response mission to strengthen the Department'scapacity to deal with deadly disasters.
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Is It Really 85 Percent?
Every time a piece of critical infrastructure is stressed by a cyber incident, the public conversation inevitably includes some discussion of the need for a public-private partnership in defending the domain. In the aftermath of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware incident, that discussion has popped up, among other places, in the New York Times reporting [1] on the incident and the Biden administration’s possible response.
Buried in the Times story is the commonplace assertion that public-private coordination is necessary because 85 percent of the nation’s critical infrastructure is owned by the private sector. The Times isn’t unique in its reliance on this data point as a guide to policymaking leaders like FBI Director Christopher Wray [2] and Sen. Angus King [3] have also publicly referred to it in recent days. It’s not clear exactly why the Times invoked the figure, but presumably this statistic is offered to contrast the American reality with that
people, critical infrastructure and key resources, a 19 paragraph document describing its national strategy for homeland security. the relevant part reads, we must work to ensure the ability of power, communications and other life sustaining systems to survive this an attack by terrorists, we must focus on the resilience of the system as a whole, an approach that centers on investments that make the system better able to absorb the impact of an event without losing the capacity to function. . so liz cheney attacked the president during what she has described as a time of war for using the term relating to terrorist attacks, absorb, it was also used during theial adm which her father was the second most influential figure. liz cheney, today s worst person in the world. i do a lot of different kinds of exercise,