Cybersecurity, Reliability & CIP

“Energy efficiency represents the kind of infrastructure investment that will power our economy as we emerge from the throes of the coronavirus pandemic.”

In April, the Biden Administration launched a 100-day action plan to address cybersecurity risks to critical infrastructure in the U.S. electric system.

An Environmental Scientist Works the Problem: a conversation with one of the lead researchers at EPRI.

A conversation with NERC’s chief engineer and EPRI’s vice president for transmission and distribution.

Ameren’s fire protection engineer: The goal is for the employees to be trained, so they can address a fire in what we call an incipient phase, where they’re very small fires.

The compounding impact of rapid technology, business model, operational, customer, and policy change requires recalibrating investment priorities and a more aggressive pursuit of strategic resiliency.

Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning and Berkshire Hathaway Energy CEO Bill Fehrman explored the growing collaboration between the federal government and the electricity sector to help secure the grid at a time of growing cyber peril.

“Cyber and physical security is one of the most important issues facing utilities today, particularly the electric sector, because electricity underpins our entire society.”

Accenture led discussions with technical leaders on how OT security stakeholders are achieving buy-ins, articulating risk, maximizing budgets, and implementing programs.

The PUF team excerpts one of the most respected assessments of the state of our cybersecurity.