Cybersecurity Essentials for Electric Operators

Electric operators tend to equate cybersecurity with meeting compliance standards, but this is a serious mistake. New threats posed by industrial control system attacks and nation-state hackers undermine current compliance-based security models. Today's electric operators must take a more robust approach to security, focusing on such key aspects as ICS air-gapping, network segmentation, preventing third-party access, and reducing the number of ‘attack vectors’ available to hackers.