The digitization of the global economy is wholly dependent on functioning, reliable and securing communications infrastructure, and the "bad guys" know it. Maybe not as "sexy" as data, this infrastructure is the distribution and management substrate upon which all of us depend and increasingly, it has become a priority cyber target. The global GPS network is just one example....
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Communications Infrastructure at Cyber Risk
But as GPS has become commonplace, the risks associated with losing it have grown. In a June 2019 paper prepared for the Department of Commerce, the research nonprofit RTI International estimated the cost of a 30-day GPS outage in the U.S. at $1 billion per day. The marine industry would be among those hit hardest, because of the bottlenecks an outage would cause in ports and waterways. And U.S. losses would represent only a fraction of the worldwide impact.