Critical infrastructure threats and defenses evolve together

Federal Times: Twenty years ago, on July 15, 1996, President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 13010, establishing the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, a task force that worked for more than a year on evaluating the various threats to those critical systems that keep the nation humming.

Since then, a succession of further executive orders, presidential policy directives and federal laws have further refined, expanded and enhanced the nation’s efforts to protect critical systems from physical or cyber attack.

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