Jack Voltaic: Army Cyber Institute's critical infrastructure resiliency project, not a person. [Research Saturday]

The Army Cyber Institute's Jack Voltaic project focuses on studying incident response gaps and identifying interdependencies among critical infrastructure to provide recommendations. Unlike most federal efforts, Jack Voltaic focuses on cities and municipalities where critical infrastructure and populations are heavily populated. The project builds around areas of interest nominated by participants, making it conceptually driven by the concerns of cities and their infrastructure partners. Through this approach, the Army Cyber Institute, the Army, and the Department of Defense can gain insights about potential roles, dependencies, partners, and support requests. Cities can also discover potential capability gaps and expand their critical infrastructure information-sharing networks before a potential disaster strikes. The Jack Voltaic project provides an innovative, bottom-up approach to critical infrastructure resilience. It deviates from other cybersecurity and national preparedness exercises by focusing on the concerns of cities and their infrastructure partners. The project's events include national-level capabilities and resources, but are driven by the concerns of the cities and their infrastructure partners. Jack Voltaic has produced research reports, including the Jack Voltaic 3.0 Cyber Research Report Executive Summary, which provides further insights into the project's findings and recommendations.