Alert security: DOTs need to take the right steps to avoid attack
Today's highways and arterials in the U.S. comprise highly interconnected, far-reaching and integrated transportation systems which require reliable communication networks spanning broad geographical areas. As these systems become increasingly "networked" and connected, the possibility that infrastructure, such as traffic management centers, bridges, tunnels, rail-control systems and signal-control systems, may be manipulated via cyber components to cause crashes and destroy critical systems is very real. To combat cyber threats, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) strives to maintain high cybersecurity standards and encourages cybersecurity best practices by transportation providers, as delineated in this article.
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Authors:
- Banik, Gouranga
- Publication Date: 2016-4
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Photos;
- Pagination: pp 22-26
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Serial:
- Roads & Bridges
- Volume: 54
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Scranton Gillette Communications
- ISSN: 8750-9229
- Serial URL: http://www.roadsbridges.com/rb/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Best practices; Computer security; Highway traffic control systems; Infrastructure; Integrated systems; Networks; Security; State departments of transportation
- Identifier Terms: U.S. Transportation Security Administration
- Uncontrolled Terms: Cyber attacks
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01599934
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 23 2016 9:50AM