President Barack Obama's February executive order on critical infrastructure put cybersecurity at the top of the agenda, but determining just how vulnerable the industry is has been up for debate. “All the technology that you own doesn’t do you any good if there isn’t a smart human operating it,” said Patrick Miller, founder of EnergySec and the National Electric Sector Cybersecurity Organization (NESCO). “You don’t give a massive chain saw to someone who hasn’t used one before.” Miller’s presentation was…
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