UTC Urges FCC/NTIA to Provide Utilities and CII Access to Federal Spectrum
In its comments, UTC reiterated its position that utilities and other CII need access to spectrum to meet increasing demands and in response to continuing interference, congestion and reallocation of...
View ArticleSecurity of Siemens SCADA Systems Products Questioned
A security researcher working for NSS Labs, an electronics security firm, reportedly identified security flaws in Siemens industrial control management systems that compromise the critical...
View ArticleNERC Issues New CIP 5 Standards and Implementation Plan For Comment
In a recent announcement, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has published ten CIP standards (CIP-002-5 through CIP-009-5, CIP-010-1, and CIP-011-1), a set of new and revised...
View ArticleMIT ‘Future of Grid’ Report Highlights Cybersecurity Concerns
U.S. utilities are structuring intelligence into their networks with the aim to make power distribution more efficient; however these efforts are getting caught in the myriad of regulations that leave...
View ArticleGAO Recommends Better Guidance from Government to Critical Infrastructure...
A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommended that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should work with public and private sector partners to determine whether...
View ArticleNERC CIP Version 5 Fails to Pass First Vote
Version 5 of the NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) was released for comment and vote in December. The results of the voting have been released and the standard updates failed to receive the...
View ArticleDHS Critical Of Utility Critical Infrastructure Security; Warns of...
Leaders of the Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems-Certified Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) provided a troublesome assessment of the actions and problems faced by United...
View ArticleProspects for Cyber Legislation Dimmed by Privacy Concerns
A letter to Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-NV), cosigned by 30 privacy and civil liberties advocacy groups, has raised serious concerns about the lack of privacy protections in regard to personally...
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