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Foreword
KLAATU BARADA NIKTO
Increasingly, the services we rely on in our daily life, such as water treatment, electricity
generation and transmission, healthcare, transportation, and nancial transactions,
depend on an underlying information technology and communications infrastructure.
Cyber threats put the availability and security of these services at risk.
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY . . .
The world faces a combination of known and unknown system vulnerabilities,
astrong and rapidly expanding adversarial capability, and a lack of comprehensive
threat and vulnerability awareness. Within this dynamic environment, both gov-
ernments and priv ...