CYBER SECURITY ELEMENTS TO WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Running head: CYBER SECURITY ELEMENTS TO WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
CYBER SECURITY ELEMENTS TO WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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CYBER SECURITY ELEMENTS TO WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Cyber risks is considered as one of the top threats that business face and mainly by the
critical infrastructures in the United States. As per studies it has been revealed that more than
20,000 employees are of the opinion that the cyber threats are what they are afraid of as these
impact the operations of the firms and are the reason for the loss of revenue. The water and
the waste water sector is facing growing number of attacks that include ransomeware attacks,
tampering with the Industrial control systems, manipulation of the valves and flow
operations, chemical treatment formulations and similar efforts that disrupt as well as destroy
the operations of the organization (Rasekh et al., 2016). In this paper, the seven elements that
will be discussed that have a significant impact on the critical infrastructures related to water
management system in the context of frequent cyber attacks.
The seven elements of risk that make up the critical information infrastructure
protection (CIIP) threat are as given below:
1. Political element- The impact of the political element can be said to be as very high as in
this case the players involved are federal government, state government, lobbyists, academic
advocates, political parties and many others. As the group consists of individuals from
different realms there is lack of cohesive focus which results in wrong investments and has
serious impact (Panguluri, Nelson & Wyman, 2017). There needs to be proper policies in
place for water management systems but as the players do not have a common voice it is
difficult. Thus it can be said that this adds on to the already difficult challenge for coming up
with national policy thus proving it true in context of cybersecurity.
2. Economic element- The cost related to the comprehensive defensive security of critical
infrastructures is high but this can certainly be accomplished if public accepts the higher costs
of living. Large water management infrastructures are of the opinion that as they have multi-
faceted systems it is difficult to defend against the various attacks of cyber security. In order