Cybersecurity, Reliability & CIP

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.

A conversation with the leader of PwC’s Cyber and Privacy Innovation Institute, Joe Nocera, with commentary by the leader of the firm’s U.S. Power and Utilities Industries Practice, Casey Herman.

“Network intrusion prevention with engineered hardware has tremendous value, ease of implementation, and low maintenance.”

The hardware threat and risk associated with various hardware components into the supply chain is the next area of focus for the industry.

The new normal of COVID-19 and pandemic-related health requirements has coincided with the new reality of increasing severe weather events and fires.

The new USAID-NARUC Cyber Guide is intended to assist regulators in defining tariffs by establishing a regulatory approach to enhance the cybersecurity stance of power systems.

“There is a chance we could be exposing the most sensitive, critical aspects of our grid to nations that might be contrary or hostile to the interest of the U.S. That is why the executive order is important.”