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NERC $10,000,000 Fine of Public Utility Highlights the Need for Cybersecurity Preparedness and CIP Compliance Programs

Data Matters

Although none of the violations resulted in any reported outages, NERC concluded that the cumulative effect of the violations posed a serious risk to the reliability of the bulk U.S. Critically, the utility had in place an internal compliance program at the time of the violations. Settlement Agreement at 12.

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Weekly podcast: ICS attacks, Reddit and SIM swap arrests

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 10 August. That’s increasing risk for people who operate those types of systems. Here are this week’s stories. According to Cybereason, the biggest lesson to be learned from their research is “that multiple tiers of attackers find ICS environments interesting.

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DB2 Dispatch from Vegas: IOD, Day One

Robert's Db2

Information management , the foundation for successful analytics, has much to do with data governance (about which I wrote in a recent article published in IBM Data Management Magazine ) and the establishment of a "single version of the truth" with regard to questions that might be answered based on the organization's data assets.