Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland and How to Thwart Them by Michael McCaul

Author:Michael McCaul [McCaul, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Security (National International), Intelligence Espionage, Terrorism
ISBN: 9781101905418
Google: 90IbjgEACAAJ
Goodreads: 26150620
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2016-01-15T06:00:00+00:00

Could It Really Happen?

So much of our world relies on a very simple principle: when we flip on a light switch or turn on any sort of device, we expect power to be there. We expect the light to turn on or the device to start working. Most of our everyday activities require the use of some sort of power, usually electrical. We take it for granted. But what if, one day, it wasn’t there? What if we found ourselves plunged into a literal—if temporary—dark age?

A serious cyberattack on the power grid would constitute a major national security threat on its own, but what if it came on the heels of an assault on the financial sector? Or a major hack targeting sensitive government data in which officials’ personal information was used to compromise their professional work? Government servers, especially when they contain classified information, are supposed to be secure. If they cannot be protected adequately, that could threaten our entire national security infrastructure.

We can begin by breaking down the elements of this hypothetical attack in roughly the order in which they occurred in the scenario.

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