Why East-West Visibility Matters for Grid Security

Learn how east-west traffic visibility helps detect and stop lateral movement attacks inside electric grid infrastructure and critical OT networks...

Attackers Keep Targeting the US Electric Grid

Plus: Chinese hackers stealing US Covid relief funds, a cyberattack on the Met Opera website, and more...

DARPA's Hail Mary Plan to Restart a Hacked US Electric Grid

On tiny Plum Island, DARPA stages a real-life blackout to put its grid recovery tools to the test...

Squirrels, Not Hackers, Pose Biggest Threat to Electric Grid

SAN FRANCISCO–The crown jewel of North America’s critical infrastructure is its electric grid. A successful cyberattack on it would be devastating. But according to Marcus Sachs, CSO with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation NERC, fears of a cyberattack are overblown. Sachs told RS...

Vermont Grid 'Hack' Latest Tumble Down Attribution Rabbit Hole

A Vermont utility was for a brief moment last week at the center of a geopolitical scandal in which the Russian government was implicated in an attack against a U.S. electric grid. As it turns out, a laptop at Burlington Electric Department was infected with the Neutrino Exploit Kit. There was no...

Institute for Electric Grid Cybersecurity Girds Utilities

Critical infrastructure policymakers are advocating the foundation of a new entity, the Institute for Electric Grid Cybersecurity, along with a new set of guidelines, to better protect the North American electric grid from cyber-attacks and determine how to respond if the grid is ever compromised...

Grid Utilities Critical Infrastructure Protection Lacking

It would seem that what spurs private and public electric grid utility operators to action with regard to cybersecurity isn’t the Chinese or Iranians attacking them, but the word “mandatory”. A paper published yesterday by two U.S. legislators revealed that when there are mandatory cybersecurity...