The new president of NARUC is prioritizing cybersecurity and...
The new president of NARUC is prioritizing cybersecurity and telecom. NARUC posted the speech of incoming president Philip Jones Friday, who assumed the role at the organization’s Nov. 11-14 Baltimore meeting. The prepared speech detailed many challenges, including $1 trillion…
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that the “dynamic” telecom industry needs for capital investment over the next 15 years. “Cybersecurity and critical asset protection will be a theme of my presidency” as threats have increased “in frequency and scope,” Jones said (http://xrl.us/bnz2ze). He described efforts in the executive and legislative branches of the federal government, and said NARUC wants to “ensure” the “statutory and historical role of [the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission] and [the North American Electric Reliability Corp.] in setting the grid’s rules and standards,” the prepared speech said. States will play a cybersecurity role and are “close to the ground,” he added. NARUC commissioners should build their cybersecurity knowledge base and teams on a state level as Jones and NARUC staff forge closer relationships on the federal level, he said. Jones launched a telecom task force on Monday devoted to questions of federalism and NARUC’s relationship with the FCC (CD Nov 14 p5).