By Jill Aitoro
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Whether the new organization can successfully protect the grid from attacks will depend on its ability to enforce policies, said Tom Kellermann, vice president of security awareness at Core Security Technologies and former senior data risk management specialist for the treasury security team at the World Bank.
"It is paramount that the department creates this organization with the appropriate authority and resources necessary to both evaluate the risk associated with cyber infiltration of critical energy assets, but also to mitigate the vulnerabilities that are identified," Kellermann said. "There are too many sectors that hide behind plausible deniability" that their network was not the entry point in which a cyberattack successfully infiltrated the grid.
Source: NextGov
