State regulators should promote a three-pronged approach to cybersecurity, wrote...
State regulators should promote a three-pronged approach to cybersecurity, wrote Terry Jarrett, chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners critical infrastructure committee. Utilities should first acquire a preventative “set of tools,” said the Missouri Public Service Commission commissioner…
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in PSConnection, the periodic magazine of the PSC (http://xrl.us/bn38ps). “Such preventative strategies involve not only traditional security controls, like performing background checks on employees, but also use new technologies, much like antivirus software that you would install on your personal computer,” he said. The second step involves utilities collaborating with one another and sharing information on threats, and the third involves how utilities handle successful cyberattacks, Jarrett said: They “must be resilient in quickly responding to and effectively recovering from such an attack.” The Missouri PSC recently conducted a workshop where it asked 47 questions about the readiness of the state’s electric utilities, he said. His cover story details other cyber risks, important preventative steps, the implications of more advanced grid infrastructure and describes incidents that have already happened.