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Paula Scalingi Quotes

Communications were one of the first things to go. What was discovered is that if you have a prolonged power outage that goes on for several hours, your infrastructure starts to degrade. Power backup only lasts so long. - Paula Scalingi

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Communications | Discovered | Prolonged | Power | Outage |

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This is a huge 'ah ha' moment, were an awful lot of people for the first time looking at that scenario came to grips with good heavens. - Paula Scalingi

The infrastructure system providers didn't understand the interdependencies among their systems. If you talk to state and local government and local utilities, they'll tell you they have great response plans. The problem is, they write them in isolation. - Paula Scalingi

A large majority of the focus up until September 11 has been on the information security side of the equation, and there has been a limited focus on infrastructures, particularly physical disruptions and the interdependencies that proved so important during the September 11 attacks. - Paula Scalingi

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