Grid hack exposes troubling security gaps for local utilities

From: E&E Publishing

Peter Behr and Blake Sobczak, E&E reporters

Third of a four-part series. Click here to read part one and here for part two.

When Washington state utility executive Benjamin Beberness dug into what was behind the crippling cybersecurity blackout in Ukraine, the details were chilling, not only because of their malevolent nature but because of how familiar those details were to Beberness.

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“The cyberattack chain that the National Guard used against us, it’s almost verbatim what happened in Ukraine,” said Beberness, the utility’s chief information technology officer.

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