Today, in a letter to President Trump, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a member of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, called for greater action from the federal government to defend the U.S. energy grid from cyber attacks. Despite overwhelming evidence of destabilizing threats to the U.S. electric grid and recent reports of Russian hacking of the control rooms of U.S. electric utilities, the federal government has not laid out a comprehensive threat assessment or taken sufficient action to protect critical U.S. energy infrastructure. "Within 90 days, we request in writing a thorough analysis of
( ... )
Comments 1
Today, in a letter to President Trump, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a member of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, called for greater action from the federal government to defend the U.S. energy grid from cyber attacks.
Despite overwhelming evidence of destabilizing threats to the U.S. electric grid and recent reports of Russian hacking of the control rooms of U.S. electric utilities, the federal government has not laid out a comprehensive threat assessment or taken sufficient action to protect critical U.S. energy infrastructure. "Within 90 days, we request in writing a thorough analysis of ( ... )
Reply
Leave a comment