CISA’s Kolasky at FERC conference urges systemic approach to risk reduction in electric sector

Senior CISA official Bob Kolasky told participants at a FERC conference that the United States faces “a period of unacceptable cybersecurity risk” and the cyber agency is focusing on systemic vulnerabilities that threaten national security, including within industrial control systems and supply chains, while offering potential tools for use by the federal energy regulators.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission hosted the technical conference on Thursday with Kolasky, who heads CISA’s National Risk Management Center, Ben Miller of Dragos, the...