National Risk Management Center

2018: Start of the center

On July 31, 2018 the ministry of national security of the USA announced creation of the National Risk Management Center organization which task will be a protection of national banks, energy companies and other industries against the serious cyber attacks capable to do harm to crucial infrastructure.

Having created the center, the U.S. Government showed what understands how some cyber attacks which are especially carried out by foreign opponents are dangerous: they can not only do much harm the companies or the industries, but also to cause a serious public crisis, Chris Krebs, the head of department of cyber security of the ministry considers. Krebs gave the WannaCry virus which in 2017 infected hundreds of thousands of computers in more than 150 countries as an example, having caused a loss to such significant structures as health care and telecommunications.

The ministry of national security of the USA created the center of cyber defense of crucial infrastructure

National Risk Management Center will work in cooperation with different industries to reveal and define priority of cyber attacks for crucial structures, such as financial system or power industry. The center will get to work at the beginning of August, and its main office will be located in Arlington, the State of Virginia. The staff of the center will be created from employees of the ministry of national security.

Heads of the different industries of infrastructure of the USA are interested in work of the new center. The matter is that Trump's administration faced criticism of the government anxious with lack of the approved strategy of cyber security. Many companies repeatedly criticized the government as the victims of cyber attacks had no place to ask for the help, and specialists did not approve the decision of administration to abolish a position of the coordinator of cyber security of the White House.

However Chris Krebs notes that participation of the high-ranking officials at the summit on this problem showed that Trump's administration seriously treats threat of cyber attacks and is ready to take adequate measures.^[1]

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