[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy

Maybe, but i also think that this an eggageration as I currently work at a multiple product utility, electric (generation, transmission and distribution) and gas (transmission and distribution) and stating we are late to the game would imply that there have been multiple outages due to cyber attacks, and I have yet to read about many cyber outages in the CNI (critical national infrastructure). There is actually more risk in physical attacks now than cyber attacks. . .



There are several grids in the US, if you are retired for more than 5-10 years, am thinking that you have missed a lot of continued improvements and upgrades, etc. I know that the PG&E sucked with their use of rate tariffs to adequately cover their physical risks, but most companies are continuously upgrading their cyber defenses. We have tripled our budgets in the last 5 years, and are constantly reducing risk entries. The Columbia gas pipeline explosions were due to failed reactions to over pressurization alerts, and they lost their license to operation in MA. But not a cyber attack.

So i am thinking that you are suffering from retirement memories of the old days, since being out of touch with the current working world advances, which are continuous and hidden from everyday retirement life. Oh I so wish I could be retired to get rid of all this working crap. . and forget about my now irrelevant operational finance career.

So yes, when the increased attacks happen, which have been on going since the beginning of March, internally non cni we have occasional connectivity issues, and slow latency, but nothing has been threatening the CNI any more than any other day.

still working IT guy,
though going back to finance / database dba / regulatory reporting support guy at work

An interesting post. Thought-provoking. KUDOS!