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Cyberattacks on clean energy are coming — the White House has a plan
“Digitization cuts both ways.”
In a fact sheet shared exclusively with The Verge before being released publicly, the Biden administration homes in on five technologies it deems critical to the near-term success of a clean energy transition and that deserve extra attention when it comes to cybersecurity. PRC-sponsored cyber group Volt Typhoon has “compromised the IT environments of multiple critical infrastructure organizations” including energy and transportation systems, according to a Department of Homeland Security advisory issued in February. The way energy systems operate today dumps too much responsibility “onto individuals, small businesses, local governments, frontline users who don’t have the resources to mount an adequate defense against the world’s most well-resourced and well-trained, malicious actors,” Krejsa says.
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