CISA to develop ‘controlled environment lab’ for assessing impact of cyber attacks on industry physical infrastructure

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is creating a new lab in partnership with industry focused on industrial control systems, to play out the “possible effects” of a cyber attack on physical infrastructure, according to agency cyber official Eric Goldstein.

CISA’s “controlled environment laboratory resource” is going to be “an environment for government and the private sector to partner in actually experiencing the possible effects of a cyber attack resulting in physical manifestations,” Goldstein, executive assistant director for cybersecurity, said...