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Jan
09

Tennessee Valley Authority Makes Cybersecurity Top Priority

From: Government Technology

TVA employees are required to take cybersecurity training on an annual basis to ward off phishing schemes that may seek passwords or other sensitive information.

by Adam Smith, The News Courier (Athens, Ala.)

“As the nation’s largest power provider, we work around the clock to monitor our network to protect it from cyber threats,” he said. “… We perform continuous monitoring, penetration testing and vulnerability assessments.”

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“Our critical infrastructure systems are housed within a specific network and are isolated from the corporate network. You have to have special authorization to log into it and it’s not attached to the internet,” he said. “We have a fence between personal computers and the grid; they don’t touch.”

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