Iran and NK Could Exploit a Weakness That the Pentagon Is Rushing to Defend

The United States government has been making efforts to ensure that the country is safe from an attack on its power grid, which many consider to be an extremely vulnerable point of attack for countries like Iran and North Korea, according to the U.K Daily Express.

It would be logical to take swing at our electric grid, given the laughable inferiority of their conventional forces, and now, realizing the vulnerability of the grid, the Pentagon has been scrambling to ensure the safety of the American people.

“Amid warnings that North Korea and Iran have plans to take out parts of the U.S. electric grid through a cyber attack or atmospheric nuclear blast, the Pentagon is taking steps to both protect the nation’s communications and power lifeline,” the Washington Examiner reported. “The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has charged BAE Systems to map a system that can detect a cyber attack and gin up an alternative communications network for military and civilian use if the grid is fried, according to Defense Systems, the online newsletter.”

DARPA’s mission, in this case, is to develop “early warning of impending attacks, situation awareness, network isolation and threat characterization in response to a widespread and persistent cyber-attack on the power grid and its dependent systems,” the agency said in a statement regarding the Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization Systems program.

“Potentially relevant technologies include anomaly detection, planning and automated reasoning, mapping of conventional and industrial control systems networks, ad hoc network formation, analysis of industrial control systems protocols, and rapid forensic characterization of cyber threats in industrial control system devices,” it continued.

As tensions continue to rise with North Korea, it is vital that the United States prepare itself for any form of attack.

The only way that we can be strong offensively is to maintain defensive strength, particularly with regard to the safety of the homeland.

It was once said that he who defends everything defends nothing, and there is still some truth to that. But in this day and age, there’s no other choice than to resolve Achilles’ heels.

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