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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

A new report from Cybereason has highlighted the alarming scale and variety of attacks faced by ICS or industrial control systems, and it seems that it’s not only nation-state attackers but also opportunistic traditional cybercriminals that are now targeting utility providers. These included recipients’ usernames and email addresses.

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DB2 Dispatch from Vegas: IOD, Day One

Robert's Db2

Robert was joined on stage by IT executives from Visa International (Mike Dreyer) and CenterPoint Energy (Steve Pratt). IBM has spent $14 billion on acquisitions just since 2005. Newell Rubbermaid got business intelligence queries to run 30 to 50 times faster through reengineering of their decision support system.