FBI director Christopher Wray spoke at a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the Swiss town of Davos on Thursday, where he highlighted the agency’s close collaboration with private sector businesses to protect America’s critical infrastructure from threats.
Wray made the remarks during a panel discussion on technology and national security, with the FBI saying that his participation at the WEF meeting was part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to ensure government and private sector leaders are informed about global threats like economic espionage and cyberattacks.
At one point the discussion turned to the question of how infrastructure like the power grid has become more highly networked with computer control systems and whether that has made it more vulnerable to hackers and other cyber threats….