Washington Post: Officials are Racing to Protect the Absolutely Most Important Hacking Targets

While the U.S. has for decades maintained 16 categories of the most “critical” infrastructure that the federal government prioritizes for protection — like chemical plants, pipelines and government facilities — the concept has its limits.

“We have diluted the definition of critical infrastructure to [include] a lot of different things that can argue that they’re critical infrastructure, and it makes it harder to take a risk-based approach,” Bob Kolasky, a former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official who worked on the project there, told me. 

TIM STARKS
Washington Post