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Extreme Weather Impacts to Critical Infrastructure

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Event
  • Session
  • Wednesday, 08 March 2023
  • 09:8 - 09:8
  • Duration: 18 mins
  • Publication date: 09 Mar 2023
  • Location: Conference, L'Auberge Hotel & Casino, Baton rouge, United States
  • Part of event CIPRNA 2023

About the session

Emerging Threats against CI

The ever changing nature of threats, whether natural, through climate change, or man-made through terrorism activities and insider threats, and coupled together with the latest challenges with cyber attacks from many directions, creates the need to continually review and update policies, practices and technologies to meet these growing demands. But what are those emerging threats, both physical and cyber, and how can we identify, monitor and manage their levels of potential damage?

– Extreme Weather Impacts to Critical Infrastructure – Sunny Wescott, Lead Meteorologist – Extreme Weather Outreach, CISA

Keywords:
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience North America
  • climate change
  • emerging threat against CI
  • latest challenges with cyber attacks
  • terrorism activities

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  • Sunny Westcott

    Sunny Westcott

    Sunny Wescott is a Lead Meteorologist specializing in national extreme weather hazards and climatological studies for impacts to public and private sector key resources. Her previous roles working with emergency response operations for Telecommunications and Critical Infrastructure integrated her background with mission support forecasting from her previous years in the US Air Force.Ms. Wescott trained on continental and oceanic weather as the Top Forecaster for her support region and is considered a subject matter expert for multiple climatological events such as drought, subsidence, wildfires, tropical cyclones, and winter storms. Ms. Wescott graduated top of her class for her degrees in Homeland Security Management, Public Safety Administration, and Atmospheric Sciences. Her current role as CISA’s Extreme Weather Outreach for the Infrastructure Security Division Collaboration Cell enables her to provide focused climate reports for regions and critical infrastructure operators.
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