Energy Dept. releases implementation guide for building secure-by-design principles into energy systems

The Energy Department has released an implementation guide for energy partners to extend secure-by-design concepts into the engineering of cyber-physical systems, as part of an effort to address the fourth pillar of President Biden’s national cyber strategy.

The implementation guide was published Sept. 5 by DOE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response. It provides questions based on 12 cybersecurity principles that engineering teams should consider in the design phase and beyond to implement “cyber-informed engineering” (CIE) practices...