Dive Brief:
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology is nearing the end of its workshops designed to give critical infrastructure sectors guidance on how to manage their cybersecurity risk, pursuant to an Executive order issued in February by the White House.
- The final workshop will be held in Raleigh, N.C., on Nov. 14-15.
- The NIST website for the cybersecurity project is: http://www.nist.gov/itl/cyberframework.cfm.
Dive Insight:
Even though the final cybersecurity guidelines will be voluntary, the electric utility industry is reluctantly moving to embrace the regime as it wrestles with concerns by regulators and lawmakers about the vulnerability of the grid to terrorist attacks.