Presidential council approves recommendations for cyber-physical resilience

PCAST approved a set of recommendations to bolster the resilience of cyber-physical critical infrastructure, emphasizing performance goals (e.g., minimum service delivery targets), enhanced R&D including a proposed National Critical Infrastructure Observatory, clearer government frameworks and authorities (e.g., refining the national critical functions list, resourcing SRMAs and the CSRB), and stronger industry accountability. Framed by growing systemic fragility from digitization and interdependencies, the report (co-led by Microsoft’s Eric Horvitz and Google Cloud’s Phil Venables) highlights adversary insight gaps and lessons from incidents like Colonial Pipeline, with the full report slated for mid-February release on the PCAST website.