In Light Of The Russian Attack, Utilities Seek New Defenses To Protect Critical Infrastructure

From: Forbes

Ken Silverstein

Now that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have formally accused of Russia of penetrating this nation’s cyber defenses and threatening our critical infrastructure, what can be done? The simple answer is to have a common defense to prevent any cascading effect and total disruption.

That’s the findings of Protect Our Power, which seeks to safeguard the nation’s transmission grid from cyber attacks. It would first devise a set of “best practices” and identify the “best available technologies” to guard against an invasion. And then it would push for the adoption of those same standards or at the very least, use them as model laws with utilities rating each other.

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