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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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INSIGHTS from SENTINEL

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

At Sentinel Insights 2021, the Thales flagship software monetization conference, industry-leading experts shared their insights on why and how innovative software licensing and packaging—the infrastructure behind the subscription economy—can be rocket fuel for your revenue. . INSIGHTS from SENTINEL. Wed, 06/23/2021 - 16:11.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

In a moment I’ll introduce you to someone who is trying to do that--bring ICS equipment to security conferences. And we’ll hear about the ICS Village, not just at DEF CON but RSAC and other conferences. It's individual pieces of it that fall apart and become a nightmare for that company or that utility or whatever.

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Why Information Sharing Precedes Open Data - Coffee Talk

Interactive Information Management

DCIO ( Thinking – this must be one of those social media risks. DCIO (Thinking – “crowdsourcing” can be cheaper, but it’s too much risk – when did we get Wordpress, is it part of the Portal? ODCE – "Open Data is the new currency of the Internet, a public utility, it’s like free energy for everyone. It’s at ODCE.io.,

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. And again, smart meters were positioned squarely as making the environment more friendly by knowing how and when energy is being used by individual customers. Environmental effects caused by pollution.

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DB2 Dispatch from Vegas: IOD, Day One

Robert's Db2

The sun is starting to set in a typically cloudless sky in Nevada's southern desert, and day one of IBM's annual Information on Demand conference (aka IOD) is just about done. The conference got over 10,000 registrants this year. Herewith are a few notes on today's goings-on in Las Vegas.