“if a highly populated area was without electricity for a period of months or even weeks, there is no master plan for the civilian population. —” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“There are emergency preparedness plans in place for earthquakes and hurricanes, heat waves and ice storms. There are plans for power outages of a few days, affecting as many as several million people. But if a highly populated area was… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“Nobody’s in charge there, nobody has responsibility, nor can anybody require that they do work.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share
“smaller companies with lean profit margins are simply not inclined to spend a great deal on cybersecurity.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share
“has to be connected to the company’s billing department, which in turn needs to be connected to whatever department actually conveys electricity to the… — Ted Koppel Copy Share
“I think that within six months, if things weren’t straightened out adequately to have something besides anarchy, somebody’s going to show up on your… — Ted Koppel Copy Share
“the extreme vulnerability of SCADA systems to cyber sabotage was first demonstrated, and dramatically so, during the administration of George W. Bush.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share
“The August 2003 blackout was a wake-up call for both industry and government regulators.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share
“consumer deals directly only with the local company that delivers the electricity on that final leg.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share
“We remain largely oblivious to the potential catastrophe of a well-targeted cyberattack.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share
“the Internet is also giving rise to “filter bubbles” that decrease users’ exposure to conflicting viewpoints and reinforce their own ideological frames.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share
“(Several nation-states, most prominently the Russians and the Chinese, have already spent years conducting just such reconnaissance.)” — Ted Koppel Copy Share
“the only institution with real power to decide how the power industry is protected is the power industry.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share
“What about independent actors using cyberattacks to knock out one of our power grids? Are we at that point yet? “Simple answer,” said Schmidt,… — Ted Koppel Copy Share
“it took on average 279 days before companies that had been breached came to realize it or were told by someone else. The” — Ted Koppel Copy Share
