Transportation Management Center Information Technology Security

Cybersecurity is a growing concern worldwide. Over the past several years, much focus has been placed on critical infrastructure providers and their ability to implement cybersecurity in order to continue providing critical services. The Department of Homeland Security considers the Transportation Systems Sector to be 1 of 16 critical infrastructure sectors whose “assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof.” The cybersecurity threat landscape is constantly evolving, and new vulnerabilities are discovered every day. Connectivity between different networks, organizations and devices, through the Internet of Things (IoT), further increase exposure to these vulnerabilities.