Mary McElman

States should synchronize their cyber incident responses and consequence management plans to execute shared objectives, improve situational awareness, and quickly restore services. The Cyber Fortress exercise underscores the need for federal, state, private, and academic sectors to collaborate and strengthen cyber resilience for critical infrastructure, particularly for water utilities.

Ahead of the storm, those preparing for Florence called her a “behemoth,” a “beast,” the “storm of the century,” Many citizens live and work in and around our coastal areas on both coasts. As such there is an inherent risk associated with our nature vs. citizen arrangement. Tropical Cyclones are one of them and we occasionally rationalize away the fickle characteristics of Mother Nature. We couldn’t do that, not this time, not this storm.