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(Bloomberg) -- A White House plan to rapidly shore up the security of the U.S. power grid will begin with a 100-day sprint, but take years more to transform utilities ability to fight off hackers, according to details of a draft version of the plan confirmed by two people.
The plan is the policy equivalent of a high-wire act: it provides incentives for electric companies to dramatically change the way they protect themselves against cyber-attacks while trying to avoid political tripwires that have stalled previous efforts, the details suggest.
Among its core tenets, the Biden administrations so-called action plan will incentivize power utilities to install sophisticated new monitoring equipment to more quickly detect hackers, and to share that information widely with the U.S. government.
It will ask utilities to identify critical sites which, if attacked, could have an outsized impact across the grid, according to a six-page draft of the plan, which was drawn up by the National Security Council and described in detail to Bloomberg News.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-rushes-to-protect-power-grid-as-hacking-threats-grow/ar-BB1fDKhb
badhair77
(4,222 posts)its not if the electric grid is attacked, its when. He didnt have a lot of faith in utilities.
MerryHolidays
(7,715 posts)...on all the great work that the (alleged) 45th "President" did in this regard.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)that the other guy didn't want to play with it. ETTD.