Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's an excellent organization.
The focus of cybersecurity up until now has been largely on what we call enterprise IT systems. One of the largest gaps that has emerged is in operational technology. These are typically systems that control, for instance, an electricity grid, gas-powered turbines, industrial control systems in pipelines, etc. A lot of these systems are now coming online. What we witnessed in the U.S., for instance, related to the Colonial Pipeline attack, or even in Florida's Oldsmar water system, is that these systems were not designed to be connected to the Internet, including farm equipment etc., and people are now trying to enable optimization through connection to the Internet.
We noted, for instance, in the manufacturing sector over the past year that the number of attacks has risen by 2,000%. The three sectors most targeted over the past year by cyber-criminals have been health care, financing and manufacturing, but manufacturing is rising the most quickly. Why? Our assessment is that because of the supply chain vulnerabilities that we're seeing and because of the intrinsic link between economic security and national security and the fact, as I mentioned earlier, that everything is intertwined, those are becoming increasing attack vectors.