A report titled In the Crossfire: Critical Infrastructure in the Age of Cyber War, which was released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies suggested that SCADA systems need better safeguards urgently. The report said systems that run power plants, manage the distribution of hazardous chemicals and help monitor water treatment plants are in a dire need of stronger safeguards. This survey interviewed more than 600 IT and security executives who work for the companies that run these systems. The report suggested, ‘Critical infrastructure facilities in the United States and other developed countries are connected to the Internet and their underlying management systems are threatened by a constant barrage of cyberattacks’.