{"id":331,"date":"2015-11-29T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/11\/29\/lege-trend-power-grid-data-security-5-rationals-4-solutions\/"},"modified":"2015-11-29T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T20:03:00","slug":"lege-trend-power-grid-data-security-5-rationals-4-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/lege-trend-power-grid-data-security-5-rationals-4-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend: Power Grid + Data Security. 5 Rationals. 4 Solutions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is working to secure the nation&#8217;s power grid because the power grid is facing a major cyberattack because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the power &#8221; industry\u2019s digital defenses are dangerously lagging and underfunded<\/li>\n<li>energy companies are &#8220;scrambling to play catch-up&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>energy companies \u00a0are &#8221;\u00a0leaving the all-important power grid exposed to hackers&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;the industry isn\u2019t fully prepared to stymie sophisticated hackers.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;In 2014, the energy sector was the most targeted of the nation\u2019s critical infrastructure industry sectors,&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5 Solutions bandied about in D.C.:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New presidential team to coordinate cyber threat assessment &amp;\u00a0response efforts\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>More funding for cybersecurity in energy and utilities<\/li>\n<li>More funding for the\u00a0Energy Department program, Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems, to research &amp;\u00a0develop tools to protect the grid<\/li>\n<li>Create &#8220;The Terrorism Prevention and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act&#8221; to\u00a0direct DHS to work with critical infrastructure companies, like power grid operators and utilities\u00a0to boost their cyber defenses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/261310-congress-struggles-to-secure-power-grid\">The Hill |\u00a0Congress struggles to secure nation&#8217;s power grid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is working to secure the nation&#8217;s power grid because the power grid is facing a major cyberattack because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the power &#8221; industry\u2019s digital defenses are dangerously lagging and underfunded<\/li>\n<li>energy companies are &#8220;scrambling to play catch-up&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>energy companies \u00a0are &#8221;\u00a0leaving the all-important power grid exposed to hackers&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;the industry isn\u2019t fully prepared to stymie sophisticated hackers.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;In 2014, the energy sector was the most targeted of the nation\u2019s critical&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,24,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-private-corporations","category-utilities","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}