Program Revamps, More Money Needed to Gird the Grid for Cyber Attacks: Experts

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A member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alliance, who declined to give his real name, is seen using a website that monitors global cyberattacks on his computer in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China, on Aug. 4, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty ImagesCongress must quickly reauthorize key federal cybersecurity programs and boost funding for collaborative public–private initiatives if the United States’s electric grid and pipeline networks are to withstand diverse, increasingly sophisticated, high-tech attacks, utility and energy industry leaders warn.“America’s adversaries are not waiting,” Zach Tudor, associate laboratory director of Idaho National Laboratory’s National and Homeland Security Science and Technology directorate, said during a three-hour Dec. 2 hearing before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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