FERC, NERC issue white paper on lessons from SolarWinds hack for the electricity sector

A white paper by federal electricity regulators and their industry partners includes a series of steps the power sector should take in response to the SolarWinds hack, pointing to recommendations from CISA that they say apply even to operators without the targeted products on their systems.

“This joint white paper by FERC Staff and NERC’s E-ISAC primarily focuses on the significant and ongoing cyber event related to the SolarWinds Orion platform and the related Microsoft 365/Azure Cloud compromise, it...