PowerGrid and Hacking

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Hackers are already setting their sights if not already our nation's power grids and industrial infrastructure in the US it will be long before the power might go out not for an 30 minutes or an hour, but for months on end. Can you imagine a nation without power government services will be severed grind to an halt, medical centers and services will be on back up power that last for days not months, military defenses will be shut down against foreign and domestic terror attacks, businesses will be harmed due to lack of logistics and shipping their products to customers. Oh yes even the stock market i.e. financial institutions and investing houses will be in the red and will cause an economic calamity for world economy will be damaged beyond repair. If you thinking this is some type of science fiction movie or playing the worse case situation in Zero day attacks in a movie than you are terrible mistaken. If the federal government does not taken steps in investing and modernizing into our aging infrastructure than we are in trouble.

The federal government has to understand that our current power grids, power plants, and industrial controls are over 30 years old and they need serious upgrades to make them stronger against hackers, cyber-terrorists, government sponsor hackers, rogue employees, and bad actors in the cyber world who want to do us harm in compromising our national security. Think about it the age of the standing armies of the past in warfare are the thing of the past the new threat is the cyber armies both foreign and domestic threats. If a power outrage does happen for example the federal government must coordinate their resources to assist state and local government and containing the crisis and restore power ASAP and restore public confidence with the American people cyberattacks are inevitable, but at least minimum the threats and weaknesses in the power grids by doing an major  over haul in the entire power grid system. Yes it will cost a lot of money by investing to modernize the power system, but at the same time we cannot afford a massive power outage like for example New York City in 2003 or it was known as the Northeast Blackout there is an old saying," Those we don't know history are condemn to repeat it." Here is an article on the subject down below for reader about massive power outages on power grids.


http://www.computerworld.com/article/3056617/security/cyberattack-could-knock-out-huge-chunk-of-us-electric-grid.html

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2472552/security0/nyc-goes-dark--secret-demo-for-senators-simulated-cyberattack-on-power-grid.html