boosting threat-sharing with the private sector, including a malicious code repository and exchange
curbing supply-chain risk, and
accelerating research and development to make energy systems more resilient to hacking.
Also, the plan serves as a roadmap for the new Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response, for which The Administration has requested $96 million in the 2019 US Federal budget. In response, two experts on Federal cybersecurity issues offer perspective.
Michael Magrath, Director, Global Regulations & Standards at VASCO Data Security:
“The DOE will be updating the Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (C2M2). The market has changed since it was published in February 2014. We anticipate DOE will incorporate NIST’s Digital Identity Guidelines (SP 800-63-3), refreshed in 2017 and advance risk-based, biometric adaptive authentication technologies to protect the nation’s energy sector.”
“We welcome the DOE raising awareness around critical threats to the energy sector and laying out a strategy. While the strategy pillars are sound, making them actionable will be challenging – largely in view of the inertia behind legacy systems. It’s critical that we invest with speed and agility, and the roadmap’s goal to accelerate game-changing RD&D of resilient systems stands out. The administration’s funding request for $96 million is hopefully just a down payment, because protecting our infrastructure adequately will cost billions.”
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