The Impact of the RSS Breach on Critical Infrastructure

RSA is a division of EMC Corporation that provides security products to businesses and government agencies. RSA's flagship product is SecurID, a combination of two-factor authentication tokens (hardware and software) and associated server software used in the implementation process. This product is designed to provide secure remote access, including access to critical infrastructure. In 2009, it is estimated that RSA deployed approximately 40 million tokens and 250 million mobile software versions in over 25,000 organizations, including banks, government agencies, manufacturing companies, pharmaceutical companies (Rashid, 2011) .

Critical infrastructure refers to physical and network systems and assets that are very important to the United States and which can not impair or be disruptive to physical or economic safety or public health or safety. The important infrastructure of the country provides basic services that support the American society. The critical infrastructure must be safe, resistant to all dangers and can be recovered quickly. To strengthen and maintain important safe, effective and resilient infrastructure (including assets, networks, systems) essential for public trust and national security, prosperity and happiness, aggressive and collaborative We need to make efforts. This effort is shared by federal, state, provincial, tribal and regional organizations, as well as public and private owners and key infrastructure operators.

Why do you focus on the important infrastructure needs of the country? Important infrastructure provides basic services that we use everyday. Due to various dependencies and interdependencies among infrastructure sectors, confusion and collapse in any one sector brings about a knock-on effect that affects other sectors, which will affect even more sectors . Most of the important infrastructure in our country is privately owned and both the government and the private sector are responsible for preventing and mitigating risks of important infrastructure turmoil. Investment in infrastructure protection is essential for the resilience of the public sector and the private sector.

The company is responsible for protecting systems that make up the majority of critical infrastructure. Therefore, preparation and response of the private sector is essential to the national influence of disaster prevention. Government actions to cope with disasters may encourage or hinder the private sector's efforts. But unless the private sector helps them understand that infrastructure is truly important, the government can not respond appropriately. Likewise, an enterprise can not devise an emergency response plan without knowing how the government responds. In order to maximize country preparation, federal, state and local governments need to work together with the private sector to develop plans to deal with large-scale disasters. The Business Round Table Conference (BRT) and the National Security Business Director (BENS) project took on important initiatives in this area. 47 We need to encourage this foundation and build on it.