U.S. Department of Energy launches year-long fellowship for energy sector security managers
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched the Operational Technology (OT) Defender Fellowship, another step toward defending the critical infrastructure that underpins America’s security and prosperity. The OT Defender Fellowship program is a collaboration with DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ (FDD) Center for Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI) that will deepen the cybersecurity knowledge of key U.S. front-line critical infrastructure defenders.
The year-long OT Defender Fellowship program is for operational technology security managers throughout the energy sector. The program will allow these security managers to engage with cyber and national security experts across the U.S. government to gain a greater understanding of the strategies and tactics of America’s adversaries and how U.S. government cyber operators defend our nation.