The Department of Energy announced it is offering $70 million for research and development into technologies that would protect energy delivery infrastructure against physical and cyber-related threats as part of an emphasis on taking care of “the operational technology side of the house.”
The All-Hazards Energy Resilience funding opportunity will be managed by the DOE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response (CESER). The agency is specifically seeking OT-related proposals that address how one might implement a zero-trust architecture in an electrical or fuel environment.
“The entry vectors into the sector are many. There are IT pathways where you’re coming in the IT front door, traversing the network and getting into the OT network. There are other kinds of pathways to enter the infrastructure, all of which are being considered in this funding opportunity announcement, but also in the broader portfolio of research we run in our office,” the CESER senior official said.
Mark Cooper, President & Founder, PKI Solutions had this to say:
“There is technology today, if implemented correctly, that would solve this problem such as tried and true Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). The issue is that the problem is complex and many companies who implement these effective technologies do so without taking into consideration all the aspects of the technology or neglect to implement it fully or, worst of all, neglect to monitor it after it’s installed. Simply implementing any technology is not a one-and-done exercise.
“OT environments that enable a resilient energy grid rely on foundational cryptography systems like PKI, but historically these systems have had challenges in monitoring threats and resilience. An investment like this by the DOE should help show the importance of real-time threat detection in OT environments.”
Companies need to get the message that there are technologies out there that make hacks a whole lot harder to pull off. Thus they should be investing in that technology before bad things happen to them.
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DOE Announces $70 Million To Combat Physical And Cyber Threats
The Department of Energy announced it is offering $70 million for research and development into technologies that would protect energy delivery infrastructure against physical and cyber-related threats as part of an emphasis on taking care of “the operational technology side of the house.”
The All-Hazards Energy Resilience funding opportunity will be managed by the DOE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response (CESER). The agency is specifically seeking OT-related proposals that address how one might implement a zero-trust architecture in an electrical or fuel environment.
“The entry vectors into the sector are many. There are IT pathways where you’re coming in the IT front door, traversing the network and getting into the OT network. There are other kinds of pathways to enter the infrastructure, all of which are being considered in this funding opportunity announcement, but also in the broader portfolio of research we run in our office,” the CESER senior official said.
Mark Cooper, President & Founder, PKI Solutions had this to say:
“There is technology today, if implemented correctly, that would solve this problem such as tried and true Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). The issue is that the problem is complex and many companies who implement these effective technologies do so without taking into consideration all the aspects of the technology or neglect to implement it fully or, worst of all, neglect to monitor it after it’s installed. Simply implementing any technology is not a one-and-done exercise.
“OT environments that enable a resilient energy grid rely on foundational cryptography systems like PKI, but historically these systems have had challenges in monitoring threats and resilience. An investment like this by the DOE should help show the importance of real-time threat detection in OT environments.”
Companies need to get the message that there are technologies out there that make hacks a whole lot harder to pull off. Thus they should be investing in that technology before bad things happen to them.
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