- Free cyber tools for American critical infrastructure are no longer available
- The project was initially set up after the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- A lack of absorption since then has resulted in the sunset of the project
A free cybersecurity service created to help protect critical infrastructure following the Russian invasion of Ukraine has discreetly closed.
The Critical Infrastructure Defense Project has been developed by Cloudflare, Crowdstrike and Ping Identity, and authorized organizations in “vulnerable sectors” could access free of charge of cybersecurity services, including a zero confidence safety model to help us hospitals and public water and electricity services to secure their networks, endpoints and identities.
The program also offered critical threats to cybersecurity teams likely to be targeted.
The protection of critical infrastructure stops
A crowdsstrike spokesman explained that the project stopped, as its use had gone to the initial threat levels experienced since the beginning of 2022.
The services offered by the trio of cybersecurity companies “aligned over an increased initial threat period and that its use has since calmed down,” said the spokesperson Nextgov / FCW.
The end of the project could not arrive at a worse moment, the reports suggesting that the Trump administration may have signed efforts to counter Russian cyber operations, and NATO warning, Russia, again mapping critical infrastructure, including underwater internet cables.
When you try to access the critical infrastructure defense project, the website is now redirecting you to the Cloudflare home page.
After recent disorders in the Middle East, there is a distinct possibility that Iran can accelerate its cyber operations against the United States.
Iran has already targeted critical infrastructure, including American water treatment plants several times, indicating that the need for a free cybersecurity program for American critical infrastructure could still remain.
