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MassDEP: cybersecurity assessments required; $2M grant fund offers up to $50,000 per water system
Summary
MassDEP said water systems must complete cybersecurity assessments as part of emergency response/sanitary survey requirements and announced a Cybersecurity Improvement Grant (administered with Clean Water Trust) offering up to $50,000 per system from a $2 million pool; 32 systems have been funded to date.
Gan Bubble, the cybersecurity coordinator for the drinking water program at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, told webinar attendees that cybersecurity assessments are integrated into sanitary-survey and emergency-response planning requirements and explained how systems can obtain assistance.
"How you can get a cyber security assessment? You can get a free cyber security assessment utilizing EPA's cybersecurity program... it takes 2 hours of your time virtually, and once you complete that... you get a mitigation…
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