Cybersecurity Focus Shifts to Energy Infrastructure

The Biden Administration has committed to making cybersecurity a top priority and is now turning its focus towards energy infrastructure, which is widely recognized as vulnerable to cyberattack due to grid control systems. The U.S. Department of Energy has launched a 100-day initiative to “advance technologies and systems that will provide cyber visibility, detection, and response capabilities for industrial control systems of electric utilities.”

The initiative outlines four primary areas of focus: (1) encouraging the implementation of measures that increase “detection, mitigation, and forensic capabilities; (2) setting “concrete milestones” designed to “enable near real time situational awareness and response capabilities”; (3) supporting and increasing the “cybersecurity posture of critical infrastructure information technology networks”; and (4) establishing a voluntary program “to deploy technologies to increase visibility of threats in ICS and OT systems.”

Source:

• Husch Blackwell: Cybersecurity Focus Shifts to Energy Infrastructure