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2023 Edition
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first published week of: 03/13/2023
New White House Cyber Strategy Could Drive Utility Costs Higher, Warns Security Expert
by Robert Walton
The electric utility sector should “build in cybersecurity proactively” as a “new generation of interconnected hardware and software systems” is developed to manage the nation’s clean energy resources, the White House said in a national cybersecurity strategy released last week.
The U.S. is making a “generational investment in new energy infrastructure,”and the White House’s new cybersecurity strategy calls for securing it through the 2022 Congressionally-directed National Cyber-Informed Engineering Strategy “rather than developing a patchwork of security controls after these connected devices are widely deployed.”
The U.S. Department of Energy unveiled the engineering security strategy last year to incorporate more cyber resilience during the manufacturing, development and deployment of computer systems used by energy providers.
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