Presidential advisory council calls for metrics to evaluate critical infrastructure cyber-physical resilience

Metrics should be an important part of the federal government’s efforts to boost cyber-physical resilience for critical infrastructure systems, according to a new report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

“As the foundation of resilience, we need to define and aspire to achieve vital operating capabilities for all critical systems, even when those systems are experiencing failure,” PCAST says in the report released on Tuesday. The advisory council calls for CISA and NIST to establish...