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The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has partnered with eight firms to conduct research and development activities and establish cybersecurity best practices for distributed energy resource environments.

Tom Kellermann, head of cybersecurity strategy at VMware, told Bloomberg in a video interview posted Saturday he believes Iran will respond to a U.S. airstrike through cyber warfare.

The Department of Energy plans to introduce a challenge for commercial and academic institutions to explore systems and approaches to increase the resiliency of the country’s bulk power system.

Siemens and the International Society of Automation co-sponsored a workshop on Monday, Oct. 29, in Houston to discuss new approaches to safeguard the energy sector from cyber attacks. Cybersecurity professionals from government and industry discussed how machine learning and security analytics platforms could help detect vulnerabilities and defend industrial control …

ForeScout has been selected to help secure the country’s energy sector infrastructure. Ryan Brichant, ForeScout vice president and chief technology officer for critical infrastructure and operational technology security, said Wednesday that his company and seven other firms have been chosen to perform work under the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence’s …

Symantec has found that a cyber espionage group dubbed Dragonfly has re-emerged since late 2015 and has begun to launch cyber attacks on the energy sector in some countries in Europe and North America. The company said Wednesday the Dragonfly group that started in 2011 has made attempts to gain …

A new Tripwire survey says 77 percent of information technology professionals in the energy sector saw an increase in cyber attack incidents within their organizations over the last year. Tripwire said Thursday it commissioned market research firm Dimensional Research to poll at least 150 IT executives from companies across utilities, …

ThreatConnect and nonprofit corporation Energy Sector Security Consortium have formed an alliance in an effort to protect critical energy facilities from potential cyber attacks. ThreatConnect will combine its threat intelligence platform with EnergySec’s information sharing programs and industry knowledge to improve the security of energy infrastructures against network vulnerabilities, ThreatConnect …

The Energy Department has awarded the University of Arkansas and the University of Illinois $34.7 million in grants to develop technologies for the defense of U.S. energy critical infrastructure from cyber attacks. DOE said Friday the universities will conduct research and development activities in support of efforts to secure the electric grid and …

Hortonworks has set its eyes on an expanded customer base in Europe for its Open Enterprise Hadoop offering via partnership with Open Energi on the utilization of smart power grids in the U.K. Hortonworks said Sept. 3 Open Energi will deploy Hortonworks Data Platform to help analyze and extract insights from energy consumption data streamed …

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has moved its Pittsburgh operations in Pennsylvania from the Regional Enterprise Tower to the Energy Innovation Center to work closer to potential partners in academia and the energy sector. The company said Thursday it is the first tenant in the center, where the Connelley Trade School used to stand until it closed …

The Intelligence and National Security Alliance will conduct a panel discussion regarding energy-related cybersecurity issues on Nov. 18 at ManTech International‘s office in Herndon. INSA said Friday the forum will cover topics such as vulnerability mitigation, threat deterrence, consequence management and government-industry collaborations to avoid attacks in the U.S. energy …

Booz Allen Hamilton has created a set of guidelines for energy companies to protect infrastructures from cyber attacks and to help operators comply with security standards established by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. The NERC updated critical infrastructure protection requirements after a report from the Department of Homeland Security …

NTT Data and AutoGrid Systems will jointly research and develop cloud-based applications with the goal of helping utility companies manage peak electricity demand. The companies seeks to leverage AutoGrid’s industry-specific data analytics platform and NTT Data’s market presence to deploythe  technology worldwide, NTT said Thursday. Toshio Iwai, NTT Data executive vice …

ICF International announced Wednesday it has teamed with SecureState to provide cybersecurity solutions with a focus on customers in the energy sector. Through the partnership the firms will work to deliver a full suite of cybersecurity and reliability services to help energy sector clients comply with North American Electric Reliability …