Top 3 Cybersecurity Challenges Facing Electric Utilities

Greg Eyster March 17, 2023

The business benefits of digital transformation in grid operations are tremendous, but this progress increases cyber risk to Operations Technology (OT) in the areas of safety, unscheduled downtime, and negative impact on corporate brand.

The good news is that there are practical steps utilities can take to enhance the security of their Industrial Control Systems (ICS) environment and effectively mitigate cyber risk today.

Read the report to find out how to effectively confront the most common cybersecurity challenges by:
• Identifying and inventorying OT assets
• Monitoring assets for vulnerabilities and weaknesses
• Detecting threats and initiating incident response
• Addressing the IT/OT cybersecurity gap

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Categories: Asset & Workforce, Grid, Technology

Greg Eyster

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