Resort at Forest Haven
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Cyber Attack

Just imagine… A carefully-planned and professionally-executed cyber attack disables the power stations located across the country.  Within minutes, entire regions of our electrical grid are wiped out.  Lights everywhere go dark.  And although cell phones maintain their power for a time, there is no power to the towers and so communication is nil.  There is no power anywhere except for a few generators.  There is no gasoline… There is no running water… There is no communication from TV or radio… Within hours, all food, drugs, and supplies on store shelves are picked clean.  As people realize that the electricity might not come back for a very long time, law and order begins to break down…

The solution?

The Resort at Forest Haven.  While the nation tears itself apart in the chaos of having no power, no light, and no communication, residents of The Resort at Forest Haven feel completely safe and secure, because…  We have light in the darkness.  We have gas and electrical power.  We have water, food, and fuel storage.  We have security and communications.  We have commerce and transportation.  We have extensive grain fields, fruit and nut orchards, vineyards…  We have everything necessary to be completely self-sufficient and at the same time, maintain the high standard of living that you and your family are accustomed to.

  • “Virtually all of our civilian critical infrastructure — including telecommunications, water, sanitation, transportation, and healthcare — depends on the electrical grid. The grid is extremely vulnerable to disruption by a cyber or other attack. Our adversaries already have the capability to carry out such an attack.  The consequences of a large-scale attack on the U.S. grid would be catastrophic for our national security and economy.”

–US Secretary of Defense & the CIA

  • Nine out of ten Americans could die from starvation, disease, and societal collapse, if [an electrical] blackout lasted a year.

–EMP Task Force

 

  • “If we are [cyber] attacked, we will lose.”

–Mike McConnell, Director of National Intelligence

  • If a highly-populated area was without electricity for a period of months or even weeks, there is no master plan for the civilian population.

–Ted Koppel, Lights Out

 

  • “If there were a complete blackout in a certain part of the country for a three-month stretch, the looting and everything that [would] ensue just boggles the mind, how large the numbers [would] be.”

–Ajit Jain, Berkshire Hathaway

  • A nationwide blackout lasting one year could kill up to 90 percent of the American people by starvation, industrial and environmental catastrophes (like firestorms from natural gas pipelines and radioactive plumes from nuclear reactors), and societal collapse.

–Congressional Commission

  • The electricity system “faces imminent danger” from cyber-attacks, which are growing more frequent and sophisticated. “Widespread disruption of electric service because of a transmission failure initiated by a cyberattack at various points of entry could undermine U.S. lifeline networks, critical defense infrastructure and much of the economy; it could also endanger the health and safety of millions of citizens.”

–The U.S. Energy Department

  • We can’t defend against everything, but right now we’re vulnerable to just about everything.

–Brett Williams, US Cyber Command

 

  •  “It is literally possible for a hactivist group, well trained and well motivated, to take down major portions of the grid without the industry being able to stop it.”

–George Cotter, NSA

  • Iranian hackers have the potential capability not only to spy on but also to critically damage sensitive networks in the United States, Canada, Israel, India, etc.

–US security firm Crowdstrike

 

  • Question to White House advisor on cybersecurity, “Is there a way we can guarantee that a cyberattack won’t knock out one of our power grids?” Answer: “Absolutely not.”

–Howard Schmidt

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