Best Practices, Safety, Security Practices

A Cyber Event Interrupted US Power Grid Operations

April 30, 2019 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Stories – and only stories – abound about whether the Ruskies have infiltrated the US power grid – years ago. The government is not going to tell the truth for fear of scaring the crap out of people. On March 5th a “cyber event” interrupted the power grid in parts of the western United States. […]

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Safety, Security Practices

Electric Grid Still Vulnerable To Hackers

June 17, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

The WSJ Blog had a guest post from Deloitte talking about why the U.S. electric grid is still vulnerable to attack. The short answer is that the grid is being used and managed in a way that it was never designed to operate and the utilities and manufacturers have not adjusted to that fact (see […]

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