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es to regulate the secure information
flow. Smart AppShield shields
the application from the cyber
attacks and prevents information
leakage, thus providing a trusted
computing base.
Trusted Computing Framework
for Embedded System
(TCES) is a hardware and software
solution that provides broad capabilities
for ensuring the security
of highly distributed embedded
systems, with high-level security
assurance rooted in the hardware,
and high flexibility provided by
the software implementation.
SecureVisor is a platform for
efficiently protecting weapon systems
against cyber threats. Secure-
Visor has three major components
including a whitelisting tool to
identify allowed safe programs,
a security enhanced hypervisor,
and a Trusted Platform Module
(TPM) to provide the root of trust.
SecureVisor is a combined hardware-software
security solution
that provides a high level of security,
and also minimizes impact on
platforms in terms of power, processing
cycles and operation performance.
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The nation’s power grid is struck
by cyber or physical attacks once
every four days
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Adm. Mike Rogers announced in
March that it is a matter of “when,
not if ” a foreign power will attack
critical U.S. infrastructures.
Peter Pry, a former CIA officer
and grid security advocate, says
the report correctly identified the
contradiction between Obama administration’s
green agenda and
the need to protect the nation’s energy
security.
“The ‘war on coal’ and other hydrocarbon
sources of energy, and
the Obama administration’s environmental
obstacles to development
of nuclear power, is making
the nation less safe,” said Pry, executive
director of the Task Force on
National and Homeland Security.
Coal-fired electric plants and
potentially nuclear power provide
the country with the most resilient
source of electric power. But
the administration’s push to phase
them out and replace them with
wind and solar energy generation
is not only technologically unrealistic.
It will reduce national electrical
supplies at a time when demand
is increasing sharply.
The result will be both increase
costs for electric power and increase
risks to national survival in
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the aftermath a major cyber attack.
“The increased risks to the national
electric grid and national
security by Obama’s green agenda,
driven by the alleged threat from
climate change, is even more true
for greater threats to the grid posed
by natural and manmade electromagnetic
pulse (EMP),” Pry said.
“These threats and cyber are here
and now, while climate change—if
this scientifically dubious threat
occurs at all—is in the future.”
Mills, the Manhattan Institute
researcher, told the Washington
Free Beacon that cyber security
“is the existential challenge of the
Internet, but so far mainly about
private info and financial data.”
“Meanwhile, the so-called smarter
grid and green power both require
a vast increase of Internet
connectivity bolted onto our electrical
grids,” he said. “What in the
world makes green pundits think
that rapidly expanding and exposing
our critical grid infrastructure
to the Internet is a good idea to
rush into?”
Editor’s Note: Bill Gertz article reproduced
with permission of Washington
Free Beacon: www.freebeacon.com