“The plan is.. to install sophisticated new monitoring equipment to more quickly detect hackers, and to share that information widely with the U.S. government.. And it will expand a partially classified Energy Department program to identify flaws in grid components that could be exploited by the country's cyber-adversaries, including Russia, Iran and China.”
How about you not connect your power grid to the Internet. Besides which installing ‘’sophisticated new monitoring equipment’ is just going to make the systems less secure. As these ‘sophisticated new monitoring equipment’ are basically a backdoor into your systems and run on the same systems as the grid. Basically SCADA units running on Microsoft Windows. Finally, would slashdot stop re-posting U.S. government neocon cyber BS on a technology forum.
Biden rushes to protect the power grid - ye wah' (Score:1)
How about you not connect your power grid to the Internet. Besides which installing ‘’sophisticated new monitoring equipment’ is just going to make the systems less secure. As these ‘sophisticated new monitoring equipment’ are basically a backdoor into your systems and run on the same systems as the grid. Basically SCADA units running on Microsoft Windows. Finally, would slashdot stop re-posting U.S. government neocon cyber BS on a technology forum.