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Commerce Agency, Energy Sector Collaborating On Cyber Protections

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, January 17th, 2018

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Commerce Agency, Energy Sector Collaborating On Cyber Protections

A Commerce Department agency, energy sector and technology providers are partnering in a new initiative aimed at finding solutions for protecting critical assets used in the generation, transmission and distribution of power.The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), part of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, has initiated a new project, Energy Sector Asset Management, that “will result in a freely available NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide that includes an example solution for electric utilities and oil and gas companies to effectively…

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