‘I do not have confidence’ that US infrastructure is cyber-secure, former NSC official says

Former Biden national security official Anne Neuberger said Wednesday that she is not confident in U.S. critical infrastructure being safe from cyberattacks, a harrowing message delivered at the AI Expo for National Competitiveness — run by the Special Competitive Studies Project — that centered, in part, on the evolving technology and its use cases in national security.

“Today in the United States, I do not have confidence that any part of our infrastructure couldn’t be brought down in a cyberattack,” said Neuberger, who served as deputy national security advisor for cybersecurity and emerging technology.

“There’s reasons for that,” she added. “There’s old tech, there’s tech that wasn’t built to be connected to the internet to be accessible, and there’s still less cybersecurity for operational systems than there are for IT systems.”

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