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Trusted Critical Infrastructure Technology Resources from ICIT Community Experts. Arm yourself with insights on current trends, innovation and emerging technology for our nation's critical infrastructure.
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Leadership.
Acquisition Reform Is Materializing, but the Harder Test Still Lies Ahead
Acquisition reform returns as a familiar Washington ritual, yet change is often only seen at the margins. The task at hand has simply been too monumental to effectively revamp the entire system: Reforming how the Pentagon buys alone isn’t enough, any meaningful transformation depends on revitalizing the industrial base, strengthening supply chain security, giving industry the capital and demand certainty to invest, requirements-setting, and sustained workforce development and
Apr 78 min read
War has always targeted infrastructure. Data centers are no exception
War has always targeted infrastructure. In conflict, the systems that sustain an adversary's ability to operate are identified and acted upon. In a digitally dependent society, data centers sit at the center of those systems. As the cybersecurity community gathers this week for the RSA Conference, the systems that support our digital world warrant closer attention.
Apr 35 min read
Iran and the Expanding Cyber Front: What Government Leaders Need to Know
Explore how Iran’s expanding cyber operations are reshaping national security risk for governments and critical infrastructure. This perspective outlines evolving tactics—from disruptive attacks to long-term espionage—and what leaders must do now to prepare for escalating cyber conflict.
Mar 235 min read
Living Between Breakdown and Build: America’s Infrastructure is Being Built in Plain Sight
In this latest SC Media perspective, ICIT CEO Cory Simpson highlights the tension that defines this moment: while global competition, cyber threats, and climate disruptions create a sense of breakdown, the quiet work of building better, more resilient infrastructure is reshaping the foundations of everyday life.
Feb 234 min read
Legal.
The Deferral Trap: Compounding Risk and AI Adoption Governance
The Mythos moment is significant for reasons that extend beyond its immediate cybersecurity implications. It establishes, with unusual clarity, that AI capability has crossed a threshold in the offensive domain — and that the defensive and governance infrastructure available to most institutions has not kept pace. That gap is not a projected risk. It is a present condition.
Apr 143 min read
Acquisition Reform Is Materializing, but the Harder Test Still Lies Ahead
Acquisition reform returns as a familiar Washington ritual, yet change is often only seen at the margins. The task at hand has simply been too monumental to effectively revamp the entire system: Reforming how the Pentagon buys alone isn’t enough, any meaningful transformation depends on revitalizing the industrial base, strengthening supply chain security, giving industry the capital and demand certainty to invest, requirements-setting, and sustained workforce development and
Apr 78 min read
The Three-Legged Drone Stool: Policy, Production, and Protection
Discover why U.S. drone dominance depends on three interconnected pillars—policy, production, and protection. In this SC Media perspective, Brett Freedman explains how strengthening regulatory frameworks, scaling industrial capacity, and advancing counter-drone defenses are essential to maintaining national security and protecting critical infrastructure in the age of drone warfare.
Mar 96 min read
Strengthening the Civilian Backbone of National Security: ICIT’s Center for FCEB Resilience 2025 Impact Report
ICIT’s Center for FCEB Resilience marked a pivotal year advancing civilian cyber resilience through research, convenings, and public-private collaboration. See how government, industry, and partners are strengthening the federal enterprise—and how your organization can help lead the next phase.
Jan 283 min read
Operators.
Operating at the Speed of the Adversary
This is the second in a series of articles examining the security implications of AI-driven vulnerability discovery. The first addressed the engineering foundation. This one addresses the operational reality.
This one addresses how organizations must operate from where they actually are, which for most is not a clean, well-architected starting point but rather decades of accumulated technical decisions that were never evaluated through a security engineering lens.
1 day ago9 min read
AI Vulnerability Discovery and the Case for Systems Security Engineering
For decades, the approach to building technology has operated on an implicit assumption that security could be addressed after the fact...This created an environment in which building technology that simply worked was sufficient, and the cost of building technology that was engineered to be secure was treated as an unnecessary burden on development timelines and budgets... The capabilities demonstrated by recent advances in artificial intelligence have fundamentally altered t
Apr 169 min read
Acquisition Reform Is Materializing, but the Harder Test Still Lies Ahead
Acquisition reform returns as a familiar Washington ritual, yet change is often only seen at the margins. The task at hand has simply been too monumental to effectively revamp the entire system: Reforming how the Pentagon buys alone isn’t enough, any meaningful transformation depends on revitalizing the industrial base, strengthening supply chain security, giving industry the capital and demand certainty to invest, requirements-setting, and sustained workforce development and
Apr 78 min read
The Drone Gap: Why the U.S. Industrial Base Continues to Fall Behind in a World at War by Drone
As drone warfare reshapes global conflict, the U.S. industrial base is falling behind—exposing tactical gaps, supply risks, and strategic vulnerabilities that demand urgent investment and policy response.
Mar 45 min read
Technical Experts.
AI Vulnerability Discovery and the Case for Systems Security Engineering
For decades, the approach to building technology has operated on an implicit assumption that security could be addressed after the fact...This created an environment in which building technology that simply worked was sufficient, and the cost of building technology that was engineered to be secure was treated as an unnecessary burden on development timelines and budgets... The capabilities demonstrated by recent advances in artificial intelligence have fundamentally altered t
Apr 169 min read
The Deferral Trap: Compounding Risk and AI Adoption Governance
The Mythos moment is significant for reasons that extend beyond its immediate cybersecurity implications. It establishes, with unusual clarity, that AI capability has crossed a threshold in the offensive domain — and that the defensive and governance infrastructure available to most institutions has not kept pace. That gap is not a projected risk. It is a present condition.
Apr 143 min read
Identity Security: In the Critical Path for Agent Deployment
Create a paper that guides the financial services sector and other sectors to evolve practices toward identity security (and away from identity governance platforms) as an essential component for AI Agent deployment at enterprise scale. Identify alignment with the practical approach used by Wells Fargo.
Apr 102 min read
Acquisition Reform Is Materializing, but the Harder Test Still Lies Ahead
Acquisition reform returns as a familiar Washington ritual, yet change is often only seen at the margins. The task at hand has simply been too monumental to effectively revamp the entire system: Reforming how the Pentagon buys alone isn’t enough, any meaningful transformation depends on revitalizing the industrial base, strengthening supply chain security, giving industry the capital and demand certainty to invest, requirements-setting, and sustained workforce development and
Apr 78 min read
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