Utilities, including electricity, gas, nuclear power and water treatment, are the most critical industries in the world according to a new ranking from Vertiv.
Germany has passed legislation ordering that more than 2,000 essential service providers implement new minimum information security standards or face penalties.
Electric utility substations require continual protection from economic, human and legal liability risk, but these often isolated stations have unique security needs.
It was electricity, gas, oil and water back then. But when Congress passed and President George Bush signed the USA Patriot Act of 2001, those and a lot other sectors got bundled into critical infrastructures and suddenly inherited a more intense security profile.
