cybersecurity

House Energy and Commerce Committee
Power Industry Asks Congress to Authorize Cyber Defense Programs
Electricity sector participants urged Congress to support cyber security programs as the House E&C Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy heard testimony on the efforts of nation-states and other actors to hack the bulk power system.
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ERO, Stakeholders Support Proposed Cybersecurity Standards
NERC and other commenters on two NOPRs supported the ERO's proposed changes to the critical infrastructure protection standards.
NERC
GridEx Participants Report No Disruption from Shutdown
Participants in the upcoming GridEx VIII say the biennial exercise was not affected by the recently-ended government shutdown.
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SERC’s Moran Warns of Growing Climate Security Risks
A speaker at SERC Reliability's fall summit said adversaries may take advantage of severe weather to launch physical and cyberattacks against the grid.
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FERC CIP Audits Find Ongoing Cloud Issues
FERC staff warned in a report that third-party cloud services pose an ongoing risk to the security of the electric grid.
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Counterflow: Beam Me Up, Scotty
The U.S. Army’s new next-generation nuclear power program is wasteful, counterproductive and dangerous, says columnist Steve Huntoon.
F5
State-backed Actor Breaches Enterprise Software Product Security
A major supplier of enterprise software has disclosed a long-term security breach, leaving the public and private sectors scrambling to respond.
U.S. Senate
Lawmakers Divided on CISA 2015 Reauthorization
Leaders of a U.S. Senate committee remain divided about the fate of the Cyber Information Sharing Act of 2015.
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CISA Publishes Cybersecurity Asset Inventory Guide
A new publication from CISA aims to help organizations catalog the electronic assets on their systems so they can respond quickly to cyber incidents.
FERC
FERC Tackles Cybersecurity in Multiple Orders
In two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking issued at its open meeting, FERC proposed to approve 11 new Critical Infrastructure Protection standards intended to allow utilities to use virtualization technology. 

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