The 2016 U.S. presidential election provided a powerful lesson for securing the future of our critical infrastructures. We need to consider certain repositories of data as being among our most important national assets. The ability to cast doubt on a nationally sacred process, either through the election systems themselves or the information influence campaigns directed at voters is disturbingly easy. The assault on the election system is not a lesson solely for governments; it reveals the importance of our digital infrastructure and the critical necessity of consequence-based engineering.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3294685/data-is-the-oil-of-the-21st-century.html