As AI drives deeper dependence across business, supply chains, and national security, the buildings that run the cloud are becoming critical infrastructure — and increasingly attractive targets.
In this handout provided by Amazon, a technician works at an Amazon Web Services AI data center in New Carlisle, Indiana on Oct. 2, 2025. (Photo by Noah Berger/Getty Images via Amazon Web Services)
A hearing of the House Homeland Security panel’s cyber subcommittee weighed whether to designate data centers as a standalone critical infrastructure sector.
Arik Ashkenazi, chief engineer at the Ein Netafim wastewater treatment plant, walks between water clarifier basins at the facility in Israel’s southern Red Sea port city of Eilat on July 13, 2023. Hemmed in between the Red Sea and a desert, isolated from the rest of Israel and with no natural freshwater, Eilat’s drinking water is a combination of desalinated groundwater and sea water. After its domestic use turns it into sewage, it is treated and then allocated to farmers, enabling the arid region to support an agricultural industry. While Eilat used to be the exception in Israel’s water management, it is now more of a prototype for the country and perhaps to the world. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)
As traditional fraud markers become obsolete, we must treat digital identity as critical infrastructure and adopt a layered, real-time defense to neutralize sophisticated crime rings.
The FBI’s annual report on digital crimes exposes a worsening environment. Yet, an unknown number of victims still suffer in the shadows never reporting the crimes they…
Then-Millenium challenge corporation CEO Sean Cairncross speaks during a ceremony on Aug. 5, 2019 at the presidential palace in Abidjan. (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP) (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)
The national cyber director is pitching an approach that blends cyber operations with diplomacy, law enforcement and pressure on CEOs to shore up their organizations.
Hackers have cut their attack timelines from weeks to hours while the government spreads resources too thin. We need to stop pretending we can protect everything and…
Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., Chairman of the House Energy & Commerce committee, speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 11, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
A House committee reauthorized an Energy Department program that funnels hundreds of millions of dollars and cybersecurity assistance to rural electric utilities.
Brett Leatherman is running the bureau's most public cyber campaign yet, pushing basic security hygiene while quietly preparing industry for stepped-up Chinese threats.
