When Washington state utility executive Benjamin Beberness dug into what was behind the crippling cybersecurity blackout in Ukraine, the details were chilling, not only because of their malevolent ...

In July 2014, the Department of Homeland Security mandated that utilities meet requirements and measures outlined in the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC’s) critical ...

Building a utility's reputation may take years, but it can be damaged or destroyed very quickly from a security event. Reputational risk is regarded as the greatest threat to a company's market value ...

In his 2001 book, Winning with Software: An Executive Strategy, Watts S. Humphrey claimed that, “Every business is a software business.” Humphrey was a software engineering pioneer who foresaw that ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) is pleased to announce the first members of its Utilities Advisory Board Steering Committee. SIA created the Utilities Advisory Board to ...

The utility industry needs to be prepared to adapt at this time of uncertainty and change, rising prices, and international turmoil. However, it is becoming more challenging to comply with regulations ...

In January, a cyberattack against water utilities in small Texas towns caused water to overflow in the city of Hale Center. “There were 37,000 attempts in four days to log in to our firewall,” Mike ...

A growing number of utility firms are betting on Internet of Things (IoT) devices to modernize their operations, gain timely and granular insights about infrastructure health, and enable advanced ...

In response to the evolving threats to the nation's critical infrastructure, the Biden-Harris administration is calling for the utility sector to bolster its cybersecurity hygiene and posture. The ...

President Biden launched a cybersecuritytask force to support America’s water and wastewater sectors in late January. And rightly so — hackers around the world are already trying to breach wastewater ...

The concept of the “electrification of society” sounds great – transition everything that runs on gas or diesel to electricity and the environment will become cleaner, equipment will run better and ...