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21st Centur y Cyber Resilience
Training and Workforce Development Program for Schools
Program Overview
1. Appreciation of Critical Infrastructure History
2. Description of Critical Infrastructure Sectors
3. “The Predators’ View” of America and
Americans’
4. America’s Reliance on Critical Infrastructure
Critical Infrastructure(s) are the enablers of the
spectrum of American life. Assuring their protection,
security, operational resilience, and all condition
preparedness, are the most fundamental of National
and Homeland Security imperatives and vital to
ensuring its citizens’ safety, security, quality of life and
future.
While America’s critical infrastructures are its enablers,
their degradation or loss, regardless of cause, also
increasingly make them America’s disablers. Beyond
the ravages wrought by their age, use, weather,
technological and human failure, America’s Critical
Infrastructures are increasingly viewed as legitimate
targets by an ever-growing array of global actors
ranging from opportunists, criminals, hackers and
hacktivists, to terrorists and Nation States. These
actors are well aware American behaviors and the
reality that the critical infrastructures ensuring their
safety, security, quality of life and future serving them
are increasingly reliant on a Global Internet the United
States may have created but no longer controls.
Predator’s recognize America’s increasing reliance on
the Internet creates a low risk/high-payoff “vector,” — a
great equalizer — and in effect a quickly emerging
single point of national failure, potentially capable of
inflicting upon the Nation casualties, human suffering,
property, economic and social consequences of
unprecedented scope, intensity and duration. This
situation is worsening by the millisecond and is
avoidable thus making it unequivocally irresponsible
and unacceptable.
Accordingly, through lecture and collaborative
discussions and table-top exercise(s), this module will
address critical infrastructure topics and provide
students an appreciation of the mindsets, metrics,
methodologies and technologies whose
implementation are essential to effectively and
efficiently address the rapidly morphing and growing
threats to their life’s enablers.
5. Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies –
National and Global.
6. National Infrastructure Policy
7. Local Infrastructure: Schools, Individuals-
Family, Companies, Local Governments,
Communities,
8. Securing, achieving, and sustaining Critical
Infrastructure Security and Resilience.
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Mindsets
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Metrics
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Methodologies
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Technologies
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Products and Services
9. Emerging Career Opportunities
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Cyber Security Specialist
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Chief Risk Officer
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Chief Resilience Officer
10. Operationalizing all of the Above
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Interactive Table Top Exercise
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Case Study School X
11. Live and Online Course Schedule, Tests,
Certifications, Additional Courses
Reference
The Predator's View: The Imperative for Critical
Infrastructure Resilience by Jeff Gaynor, Colonel,
U.S. Army (Ret.) Director, Board of Directors,
InfraGard National Members Alliance Previously
published in The Executive Journal of InfraGard
San Diego (Volume 1, Issue 3). Copyright © 2016
InfraGard San Diego Members Alliance. Reprinted
with permission of InfraGard San Diego Members
Alliance.