Today’s LiveWire Spotlight focuses on two technology trials that look to supplement the growth of E-ISAC’s Cybersecurity Risk Information Sharing Program (CRISP) to include industrial control systems used in electric system applications. The investigations support all three focus areas under the E-ISAC’s Strategic Plan issued last July: resource allocation and investment, engagement, and information sharing and analysis.
The success of Russia’s hack of SolarWinds has greatly added to government’s sense of urgency to protect the BES. Look for E-ISAC and the DOE to aggressively expand their pilots to detect similar attacks and anticipate new viruses that rogue nation-states may devise.