Tag: electricity

EU Member States, supported by the European Commission and ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, released the initial risk assessment report covering the cybersecurity and resilience of Europe’s telecommunications and electricity sectors. The report highlights several concerns, such as supply…

The World Economic Forum (WEF) published last week a paper providing guidelines to ensure cybersecurity in the operational technology (OT) environment, at a time of increasing digitalization and convergence of the OT and IT (information technology) environments. Ensuring OT cybersecurity…

The Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa confirmed on Saturday that one of their booster stations had fallen victim to a cyber attack orchestrated by an Iranian-backed cyber group. The CyberAv3ngers hackers managed to gain control over the station, which is…

The Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC), a division of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), has concluded its seventh biennial grid security and resilience exercise, known as GridEx VII. As the largest grid security exercise in North…

The National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA) in Qatar has released recommendations for securing operational technology (OT) in the electricity and water sectors. These recommendations are based on industrial cybersecurity standards ISA 62443. The NCSA will collaborate with the Qatar General…