Cybersecurity
New York and Jerusalem Partnership Plans to Defend Water Supply
- Number of attacks requiring U.S. response up 50% in two years
- `Everyone starts to panic' when water flows are interrupted
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New York and Jerusalem, no strangers to terrorism, are joining forces to protect their water supplies from cyber-attack.
The goal is to create the “Food and Drug Administration of cyberdefense for water infrastructure,” Zohar Yinon, who runs Jerusalem’s Hagihon water utility, said after formalizing the partnership with New York City officials in Tel Aviv.