President Obama’s executive order on cybersecurity is said to include voluntary standards for companies, a special council run by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and new regulations for vital systems, according to a draft leaked to the AP.

So I thought it would be useful to talk with an expert about the state of U.S. critical infrastructure and what the government can do to improve it. I sat down–virtually–with Nate Kube, founder and CTO of WurldTech, a company that provides security software for critical infrastructure companies. (If ever there was a business with a monetary incentive to stoke all the hysteria around the threat it would be Wurldtech.)

via Cybersecurity Expert: US Critical Infrastructure Threat is Real – but ‘the Sky Isn’t Falling’ | CIO Blogs.

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