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Infosec in Brief If a cyberattack hit critical infrastructure in the US, it would likely crumble, former deputy national security adviser and NSA cybersecurity director Anne Neuberger said last week.

Neuberger, speaking at the AI Expo for National Competitiveness on Wednesday, said that she lacked confidence in the resilience of US infrastructure for a number of reasons - including the Trump administration's cuts to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA’s) workforce.

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"There's old tech, there's tech that wasn't built to be connected to the internet to be accessible, and there's still less cybersecurity for operational systems than there are for IT systems," the Biden-era official told the audience at her Wednesday talk.

Since it was an AI conference, Neuberger naturally pushed for the introduction of more AI to secure critical infrastructure. She ...