The Committee for Economic Development (CED), the public policy center of The Conference Board, has issued a new solutions brief, detailing the challenges of safeguarding critical infrastructure in the United States.
The report, Securing Critical Infrastructure: Building Resilience, highlights several factors fueling heightened concern about the resiliency of critical infrastructure: escalating geopolitical tensions; the rapid integration of network-connected and automated technologies; antiquated and vulnerable systems; and the private sector’s control of most of the nation’s critical infrastructure.
According to the solutions brief, cyberattacks and threats have become a major concern. At the beginning of the pandemic, organizations experienced an 81 percent increase in cyber threats, and in 2023, the global cost of cybercrime is estimated at $8 trillion.
From 2021 to 2022, the share of cyberattacks led by nation-states targeting critical infrastr
