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Report to the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection

January 1997 • Special Report
James Ellis, David Fisher, Thomas A. Longstaff, Linda Pesante, Richard D. Pethia

This 1997 report identifies threats to and vulnerabilities of the Internet and estimates the cascade effect that a successful, sustained attack on the Internet would have on the critical national infrastructures set out in Executive Order 13010.

Publisher:

Software Engineering Institute
CMU/SEI Report Number

CMU/SEI-97-SR-003

DOI (Digital Object Identifier):
10.1184/R1/6583157.v1

Abstract

This report was submitted to the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection for their consideration. Based on the experience of the CERT Coordination Center, we identify threats to and vulnerabilities of the Internet and estimate the cascade effect that a successful, sustained attack on the Internet would have on the critical national infrastructures set out in Executive Order 13010. Finally, we discuss the implications for public policy and make specific recommendations.