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How Will $1.9 Billion for Cybersecurity Protect American Infrastructure?

CyberSecurity Insiders

Division D: Energy: Title 1: Subtitle B: Cybersecurity.

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Critical Success Factors to Widespread Deployment of IoT

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Electric grid utilities are deploying smart meters to better correspond to consumers energy demands while lowering costs. Tue, 02/16/2021 - 16:33. Digital technology and connected IoT devices have proliferated across industries and into our daily lives.

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The Ultimate ESG Audits Checklist

Centraleyes

ESG audits are systematic assessments of an organization’s ESG-related risks and disclosures. These audits serve the crucial role of verifying the accuracy of ESG data and information that a company shares with its employees, stakeholders, and regulatory bodies. What is an ESG Audit? Who Performs an ESG Audit?

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Spam and phishing in 2022

SecureList

If the movie lover entered their bank card details on the fake site, they risked paying more than the displayed amount for content that did not exist and sharing their card details with the scammers. Soccer fans chasing merchandise risked compromising their bank cards or just losing some money.

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How AI Could Write Our Laws

Schneier on Security

Big energy companies expect action whenever there is a move to end drilling leases for federal lands, in exchange for the tens of millions they contribute to congressional reelection campaigns. We should expect these techniques to get better and their utilization to grow, just as we’ve seen in so many other domains.

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Info-sharing pact will help electric companies comply with DOE’s 100-day plan

SC Magazine

Utility poles tower into the sky near Duke Energy’s main electrical substation in Durham, North Carolina. It’s a critical time for electric utilities and the energy sector as a whole – but isn’t it always? Ildar Sagdejev (Specious), CC BY-SA 4.0 link] , via Wikimedia Commons).

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Preparing for IT/OT convergence: Best practices

CyberSecurity Insiders

Beyond traditional IT operations that utilize servers, routers, PCs and switches, these organizations also rely on OT, such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs), distributed control systems (DCSs) and human machine interfaces (HMIs) to run their physical plants and factories. For organizations that have implemented an Industry 4.0