Continued Attention Needed to Protect Our Nation's Critical Infrastructure and Federal Information Systems
March 16, 2011 - This testimony discusses the cyber threats to critical infrastructure and the American economy. Pervasive and sustained cyber attacks against the United States continue to pose a potentially devastating impact on federal and nonfederal systems and operations. In February 2011, the Director of National Intelligence testified that, in the past year, there had been a dramatic increase in malicious cyber activity targeting U.S. computers and networks, including a more than tripling of the volume of malicious software since 2009.
