The Department of Energy is working with industry to craft recommendations in the next several months for increasing cybersecurity around pipeline critical infrastructure.
Private entities and key agencies formed a consortium over concerns industrial control systems (ICS) are increasingly being targeted by nation-states, hacktivists and advanced persistent threats, but such incidents aren’t being discussed.
Companies worry share prices will be impacted or they’ll become the target of even more attacks if they share the information, with the end result being that cyberthreats remain unclear, Jason Haward-Grau, chief information security officer at PAS Global LLC, told FedScoop.
