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NSA-funded study flags cyber vulnerabilities in Oregon electric grid; researchers call for secure briefing and systemwide approach
Summary
Presenters summarized a multi-state NSA-funded study showing critical vulnerabilities in the power grid, urged interdisciplinary mitigation, and asked the governor's office to host a secure briefing for elected officials and infrastructure leaders because detailed findings are controlled unclassified information.
Researchers who led an NSA-funded, multi-state study on power-grid cybersecurity briefed the Joint Legislative Committee on Information Management and Technology Feb. 28 and urged a systems approach to address gaps in infrastructure, workforce and incident response.
Birro Yashileda, founding director of the Oregon Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, and Turul Daim, professor of engineering and technology management at Portland State University, told the committee the study examined physical and cyber interdependencies across the grid and is classified as controlled unclassified information (CUI), so they cannot release detailed technical findings in a public hearing. Yashileda said the multi-state project took…
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