Report: Energy Sector Security Improvements Imperative
A new report from McAfee details the thoughts of industry leaders on the state of energy security. The report, Getting Smarter About Smart Grid Cyberthreats, looks at how legacy smart grids are vulnerable to attack and how security needs to be built into these critical systems, according to a press release.
A cybercriminal could debilitate a major city by a single targeted attack on the energy grid and compromise anything from the lights and appliances in homes, to heart monitors in hospitals, to air defense systems, the press release states.