Grids are resilient and disruption is temporary
John Mueller, 2022 - Political Scientist at Ohio State University and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute “The Cyber-Delusion: Digital Threats Are Manageable, Not Existential” Foreign Affairs, 3/22, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/2022-03-22/cyber-delusion //DH
Cyber-alarmists have also warned about hackers disabling major infrastructure such as power grids—potentially crippling entire countries. Grids do go down occasionally, but the culprits are typically squirrels and lightning. Regardless of the source, such disruptions are usually brief and bearable, and engineers are increasingly designing systems that are resilient to such threats. Estonia, for instance, the victim of a major and oft-discussed cyberattack in 2007, is now the home of NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.