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2021 October

Recognizing 2021’s National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, Security magazine had the honor of working with security leaders within the public and private sectors to bring you October’s Special Report — comprised of five different features to be used as best practices and resources to assist critical infrastructure organizations in bolstering their security postures to prevent and reduce the risks of disruptions. Our special appreciation goes to Brian Harrell, Vice President and Chief Security Officer at AVANGRID, and to all of the following contributing authors for providing their subject matter expertise:

  • Daniel Kaniewski, Managing Director of Public Sector, Marsh McLennan 
  • Dr. David Mussington, Executive Assistant Director, Infrastructure Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency 
  • Scott Aaronson, Vice President, Security and Preparedness, Edison Electric Institute
  • Kate Ledesma, Resilience and Policy Manager, North American Electric Reliability Corporation, Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center
  • Michael Arcenaux, Managing Director, WaterISAC

Throughout this month, check out stories on specialized security teams for behavioral health, K-12 cybersecurity best practices, mass notification, 5G, building security value, leadership, career advice, and more!


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Special Report – Critical Infrastructure

Protecting the energy grid is a team sport

The critical infrastructure public and private sector can look to America’s electric companies for a holistic approach and partnership on supporting essential improvements to security posture and culture.
Scott Aaronson
October 5, 2021

As threats evolve from emboldened and increasingly sophisticated malicious actors targeting critical infrastructure, the electric sector has developed a holistic and shared-responsibility approach that has supported key improvements to the security posture and culture of electric companies.


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Special Report – Critical Infrastructure

Combatting security threats to our nation’s critical water infrastructure

Given the ever-evolving and multi-faceted threat landscape, sharing and collaboration are essential to water and wastewater security and resilience.
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Michael Arceneaux
October 8, 2021

Increased reliance on automation and new technologies to assist with meter reading, leak detection and other operational goals have opened a host of attack surfaces. Given the ever-evolving and multi-faceted threat landscape, sharing and collaboration are essential to water and wastewater security and resilience.



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Special Report – Critical Infrastructure

Cyber-physical security in an interconnected world

Together, cyber and physical assets represent a significant amount of risk to physical security and cybersecurity — each can be targeted, separately or simultaneously, to result in compromised systems and infrastructure.
David Mussington
October 6, 2021

Given the rising attacks on critical infrastructure and the interconnected mesh of cyber-physical systems, the United States government is looking to better coordinate protection efforts that anticipate and counter criminal groups’ tactics, techniques and procedures, to help prevent attacks from reaching their intended targets.




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Special Report – Critical Infrastructure

GridEx: How exercising response and recovery supports grid reliability

GridEx has grown to be the largest distributed play exercise of its kind in North America, serving as a critical benchmark that maximizes the ability of organizations to coordinate with neighboring utilities and reliability coordinators to effectively exercise and address grid reliability issues.
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Kate Ledesma
October 7, 2021

GridEx has grown to be the largest distributed play exercise of its kind in North America, serving as a critical benchmark that maximizes the ability of organizations to coordinate with neighboring utilities and reliability coordinators to effectively exercise and address grid reliability issues.


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Featured Articles

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Case Study

Inova Health System builds a specialized security team for behavioral health

Inova Health System began a Behavioral Health Officer program several years ago with the goal of creating a specialized group of security personnel to reduce workplace violence incidents. Since then, the program has grown, evolved and proven its value to the organization many times over.
Maggie Shein
Maggie Shein
October 13, 2021

Inova Health System began a Behavioral Health Officer program several years ago with the goal of creating a specialized group of security personnel to reduce workplace violence incidents. Since then, the program has grown, evolved and proven its value to the organization many times over.



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Energy-grid-feature
Special Report – Critical Infrastructure

Protecting the energy grid is a team sport

The critical infrastructure public and private sector can look to America’s electric companies for a holistic approach and partnership on supporting essential improvements to security posture and culture.
Scott Aaronson
October 5, 2021

As threats evolve from emboldened and increasingly sophisticated malicious actors targeting critical infrastructure, the electric sector has developed a holistic and shared-responsibility approach that has supported key improvements to the security posture and culture of electric companies.


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Special Report – Critical Infrastructure

A resilience framework for the future

Mitigate the consequences of risks and disruptions that materialize by making disaster resilience a priority in security programs.
Daniel Kaniewski
Daniel Kaniewski
October 4, 2021

By making resilience a priority for an organization, business leaders can reduce disruptions and lessen the consequences from risks that may materialize. To build a framework for the future, considerations must include preparedness, hazard mitigation, insurance and resilience in the context of emerging risks.


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Leader to Leader

Bringing value to security

Burke Brownfeld
Burke Brownfeld
October 11, 2021

For the first installation of Security’s Leader to Leader column — for which I will interview security leaders across industries on their careers, their challenges and their views of risk and resilience every few months — I was fortunate to spend time with Shelley Benoliel, Head of Physical Security & Business Resilience at Zoom Communications, to talk about her career and her approach to the security industry.


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Leadership & Management

Should you stay or should you go?

Michael Gips
Michael Gips
October 11, 2021

As a security leader, do you better support the industry and serve your employer by attending in person events or do you play it safe and attend virtually, forgoing the in-person conversations, random encounters, and charged environment that bring so much value to these conferences? Risk professionals needs to weigh look at the data, look at the advice, and weigh the pros and cons of these situations, to maintain their status as a leader within the organization.


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Security Talk

Critical infrastructure: The critical industry everyone must protect

Maggie Shein
Maggie Shein
October 4, 2021

In acknowledgment of the wide-reaching effects that damage to critical infrastructure organizations and systems can impart, Security has dedicated our October 2021 issue to Critical Infrastructure Security. This month, our features cover the challenges and risks associated with this market sector, along with solutions and best practices security leaders can take to mitigate some of those risks. Here, we cover a few simple steps critical infrastructure security leaders can take to proactively build a program of resiliency.


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