With the private industrial cybersecurity market thriving, the Department of Homeland Security is continuing to push for closer coordination with experts on the front lines of defending facilities like power plants from hackers. In speeches last week to vendors, security researchers, and state officials, DHS personnel said they wanted to help put companies on a more proactive defensive posture to thwart hacking threats to industrial environments. The department has been working with ICS vendors to test security products before they go to market, but more needs to be done, Jeanette Manfra, assistant director for cybersecurity at DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said last Wednesday at Hack the Capitol, an ICS security conference in Washington, D.C. “In this space, unlike really, frankly, any other, we have got to have much more capability to prevent the attacks from happening before they get in there – or at least detect them quickly so […]
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