The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, a mouthful better known as ICS-CERT, released ICS-CERT Monitor covering January through April 2014. If the people running critical infrastructure actually need to be asked the series of questions that start the report (pdf), then that’s alarming.
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Vegas: securing
his smart grid
In the event of a cyber war, many security experts believe that the nation’s infrastructure would be a soft target. One defense contractor may be making that target a little tougher with its release on June 30 of a cyber security solution tailored to the needs of utility and energy companies.
Lockheed Martin said that its Palisade solution can keep those kinds of infrastructure companies ahead of cyber security threats through intelligence-driven defense.
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Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies … The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed “Perfect Citizen” to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program.