Am 12. Februar hat US-Präsident Obama zu Beginn seiner neuen Amtszeit die “Executive Order — Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity” erlassen. “We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions and our air traffic control systems. We cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our economy”, so der US-Präsident. Die Executive Order definiert Unternehmen und Organisationen der kritischen Infrastrukturen der USA: “As used in this order, the term critical infrastructure means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters”. Der gegenseitige Informationsaustausch mit und zwischen den Unternehmen der kritischen Infrastrukturen zu Cybersecurity soll verbesert werden “As used in this order, the term critical infrastructure means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters”. Ein Framework zur Reduktion der Risiken aus Cybersecurity entwickelt werden “As used in this order, the term critical infrastructure means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters”.

Executive Order des White House