Policymakers are searching for ways to defend the nation’s power grid from a major cyber-attack, amid concerns the industry’s digital defenses are dangerously lagging and underfunded.
Security experts warn that energy companies, while attuned to the threat, are scrambling to play catch-up, leaving the all-important power grid exposed to hackers.
On Capitol Hill, the threat of a major power grid hack has mostly gone with little notice, sidelined by the bold cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, a series of hacks across the health insurance industry and the devastating intrusions at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), thought to be the largest ever digital theft of government data.
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