State commissions should prepare for cyber threats, said Maryland Gov....
State commissions should prepare for cyber threats, said Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, a Democrat. He spoke at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ Baltimore meeting Tuesday and emphasized what he described as the threat of an inevitable cyberattack. “You…
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also sit in the epicenter of our nation’s cyberdefense,” he told regulators, describing the “mathematics Ph.Ds” at work in the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Md. Public service commissions can issue orders to assess cyberthreats and consider how it would affect different grids, he said. These risk-management investigations and preparations “can develop national standards,” he added. “I would encourage you not to wait for the federal government when it comes to cybersecurity.” U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta sees the cyberthreat to utilities as being in a “pre-9/11 moment,” said Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs Paul Stockton Monday. He described a “vision of partnership” with states in which “I'm here to make my problems your problems.”