How can we keep critical utilities safe from hacking?

Cyber-attacks against critical utilities are on the rise. We’ve heard about breaches of big companies that expose our data, but a number of cybersecurity threats are now targeting the infrastructure systems we use every day, including: water, sewers, and electricity. A recent hack on dozens of water treatment plants, including two in New Jersey, has sparked renewed debate about the preparedness of our local systems against digital attacks, including from international adversaries like Iran, China and Russia.

Today on Studio 2, we’re speaking with tech security experts and asking: just how vulnerable is our infrastructure to hacking? What can we do to better prepare?

Guests:

— Joshua Corman, cyber safety and security strategist and Executive in Residence at the Institute for Security and Technology

— Dr. Aunshul Rege, criminology professor at Temple University

— Zachary Mullock, mayor of Cape May, New Jersey