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Lights out : a cyberattack, a nation unprepared, surviving the aftermath / Ted Koppel.

By: Koppel, Ted, 1940 February 8-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First edition.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index.Description: viii, 279 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780553419962 (hardcover); 055341996X (hardcover); 9780553419986 (trade pbk.); 0553419986 (trade pbk.).Subject(s): Electric utilities -- Security measures -- United States | Emergency management -- United States | Cyberterrorism -- United States | Preparedness | Self-reliant living -- United StatesDDC classification: 363.11/933379320973
Contents:
cyberattack. Warfare 2.0 -- AK-47s and EMPs -- Regulation gridlock -- Attack surfaces -- Guardians of the grid -- What are the odds? -- Preparing the battlefield -- Independent actors -- nation unprepared. Step up, step down -- Extra batteries -- State of emergency -- Press six if you've been affected by a disaster -- Surviving the aftermath. The ark builders -- Some men ARE an island -- Where the buffalo roamed -- Mormons -- State of Deseret -- Constructive ambiguity -- Solutions -- Summing up -- virtue of a plan.
Summary: "Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America's power grid is not only possible but likely--and that it would be devastating" and "examines a threat unique to our time and evaluates potential ways to prepare for a catastrophe"--Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index.

Part 1: A cyberattack. Warfare 2.0 -- AK-47s and EMPs -- Regulation gridlock -- Attack surfaces -- Guardians of the grid -- What are the odds? -- Preparing the battlefield -- Independent actors -- Part II: A nation unprepared. Step up, step down -- Extra batteries -- State of emergency -- Press six if you've been affected by a disaster -- Part III: Surviving the aftermath. The ark builders -- Some men ARE an island -- Where the buffalo roamed -- The Mormons -- State of Deseret -- Constructive ambiguity -- Solutions -- Summing up -- Epilogue: The virtue of a plan.

"Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America's power grid is not only possible but likely--and that it would be devastating" and "examines a threat unique to our time and evaluates potential ways to prepare for a catastrophe"--Book jacket.

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