{"id":232846,"date":"2026-06-17T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/major-critical-infrastructure-disruptions-are-inevitable-acting-cisa-chief-says\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:25:15","slug":"major-critical-infrastructure-disruptions-are-inevitable-acting-cisa-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/major-critical-infrastructure-disruptions-are-inevitable-acting-cisa-chief-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Major critical infrastructure disruptions are inevitable, acting CISA chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major critical infrastructure disruptions are inevitable, acting CISA chief says<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/cybersecurity-resilience-critical-infrastructure-cisa-nick-andersen\/823166\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-17 12:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.cybersecuritydive.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0U.S. cybersecurity resilience in the face of sophisticated threats from China and other adversaries will increasingly depend on critical infrastructure\u2019s ability to weather major disruptions, a top U.S. cyber official said Wednesday.
\n\u201cEach and every one of us is operating right now on the front lines of a war that is never going to be cleared,\u201d Nick Andersen, the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), said at ICS Village and the Institute for Security and Technology\u2019s Critical Effect conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to see an adversarial disruption of our critical infrastructure,\u201d Andersen said. \u201cIt’s going to have significant not just technical impact, it’s going to have a significant psychological impact on the safety of the American people. \u2026 We need to start operating like that’s the reality of where we’re at \u2014\u00a0that we’re not going to be able to keep everything persistently online and available as much as we would like.\u201d
\nCISA\u2019s emphasis on resilience marks a shift from earlier government cybersecurity doctrines that focused on preventing intrusions. In recent years, advanced nation-state hacking campaigns \u2014\u00a0especially Beijing\u2019s Volt Typhoon espionage operation \u2014\u00a0have increasingly convinced government and industry strategists that their primary goal should be ensuring that infrastructure can continue operating during an attack.
\n\u201cWe have to start making some assumptions, like [that our] telecommunications infrastructure may be disrupted,\u201d Andersen said at the Critical Effect conference, which focused on operational technology cybersecurity issues. \u201cWhy? Because the telecommunications infrastructure is going to be disrupted.\u201d
\nTo support national resilience efforts, the federal government has spent years trying to make a list of the most important infrastructure assets that accounts for complex interdependencies and supply-chain relationships. But successive administrations\u2019 programs to identify those assets \u2014 referred to as Section 9 entities and systemically important entities\u00a0\u2014\u00a0have borne little fruit.<\/p>\n

Cybersecurity mandates or money?
\nDuring a question-and-answer session, Andersen addressed whether it was time for the government to require water utilities to participate in their sector\u2019s information sharing and analysis center, the WaterISAC, which has one of the lowest participation rates of any ISAC. Andersen acknowledged that water was \u201ca real mess of a sector for us\u201d because of how localized it is, but he expressed skepticism that government mandates were part of the solution.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t know yet that we will see a moment where we start to move from the voluntary to the mandatory,\u201d he said. \u201cThe bigger part for me is, how do we apply things like state and local grant dollars in the smartest way possible?\u201d
\nCISA is working with lawmakers to reauthorize and reappropriate funds for the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program, said Andersen, who described the program as a critical support mechanism for cash-strapped municipalities.
\nGrant funding and asset prioritization are better approaches than \u201cmaking things mandatory on a sector that \u2026 doesn\u2019t have the resources to be able to adapt to all these changing norms,\u201d Andersen argued.
\nCISA\u2019s goal, he said, was to \u201cidentify the entities, in a prioritized way, that we need to start doing that outreach to, and then, in a very deliberate way, making sure they’ve got \u2026 the right level of resources to help secure themselves and hit that higher standard and that higher burden that we’re foisting upon them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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