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KBR Secures DLA Contract for Automated Fuel Handling Equipment Site Maintenance; Byron Bright Quoted

KBR announced on Monday that the company has received a five-year, $38 million contract to provide maintenance support and sustainment of 23 Automated Fuel Handling Equipment sites across the globe by the Defense Logistics Agency. “This work supports DLA’s efforts to reduce waste, improve productivity and prevent environmental pollution, in addition to aligning with our corporate sustainability […] More

by William McCormick September 12, 2022, 11:40 am
in Cybersecurity News, Government Technology, News

Tenable’s Marty Edwards: CISA Initiatives, New Bills Could Help Improve Operational Tech Security

Marty Edwards, vice president of operational technology security at Tenable, said recent initiatives by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency and measures being introduced in Congress could help critical infrastructure owners and operators improve OT security and cross-sector visibility to address cyber threats.

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by Jane Edwards September 24, 2020, 3:34 am
in Government Technology, News

Mitre Launches Framework to Help Cyber Teams Understand Attacks on Industrial Control Systems

Mitre has introduced an ATT&CK framework designed to help cybersecurity teams understand the behavior and techniques threat actors use to launch attacks on industrial control systems of energy transmission plants and other critical infrastructure.

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by Jane Edwards January 8, 2020, 3:34 am
in Government Technology, News

Air Force Seeks Technical Concepts for Base Control System Security Analysis

The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to provide information on technical concepts and approaches that might be used to automatically identify, map and perform security analysis of base control systems.

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by Jane Edwards December 27, 2019, 4:31 am
in News

DOE Joins Public-Private Sector Consortium on Pipeline Infrastructure Security

Private sector entities have partnered with agencies such as the Department of Energy to form a consortium aimed at addressing industrial control system security issues in the nation“™s pipeline infrastructure, Fedscoop reported Friday.

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by Brenda Marie Rivers July 8, 2019, 2:46 am
in Cybersecurity News, News

NIST Recommends CyberX Platform in Draft Industrial Control System Security Report

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a report that cites the potential of CyberX“™s technology to help manufacturers avoid cyber attacks on industrial control systems. NIST“™s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence partnered with multiple software providers to document how behavior anomaly detection tools can help manufacturing companies secure a robotics-based production system or […] More

by Brenda Marie Rivers November 9, 2018, 5:17 am
in Cybersecurity News, News

Siemens, ISA Co-Sponsor Workshop on Energy Sector Cybersecurity

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 systems and other critical infrastructure […] More

by Jane Edwards November 5, 2018, 3:21 am
in Cybersecurity News, News

Parsons Survey Shows Rising Adoption of Internet-Connected Devices in Critical Infrastructure; Carey Smith Comments

A new Parsons survey has found that 78 percent of industrial control system engineers at U.S. critical infrastructure facilities said they are not “highly” involved in cybersecurity efforts for ICS. Parsons said Thursday it polled 300 ICS and operational technology engineers in energy, water and other critical infrastructure sectors and found that 66 percent of […] More

by Jane Edwards June 15, 2018, 5:54 am
in Cybersecurity News, News

UL Receives DARPA Grant to Test Internet-of-Things Gateway Security

Northbrook, Illinois-based security company UL has secured a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant to perform cybersecurity tests of internet-of-things gateways designed for industrial control system applications. UL said Wednesday it aims to identify the main areas of an industrial IoT gateway that can affect the cybersecurity of an ICS as well as data that traverses the gateway outside the ICS. […] More

by Ramona Adams May 11, 2017, 4:02 am
in Industry News, News

National Strategic Research Institute to Conduct Cyber Defense Study for Stratcom

The University of Nebraska’s National Strategic Research Institute has received a contract from the U.S. Strategic Command to perform cyber defense research alongside researchers from Iowa State University and cybersecurity industry consultants. NSRI said Wednesday the research team will use multiple data sources to discover threats and potential vulnerabilities that adversaries might exploit to shut down infrastructure […] More

by Scott Nicholas February 9, 2017, 9:53 am
in Cybersecurity News, Industry News

Deloitte & MAPI Study: 36% of Manufacturing Execs Cite Intellectual Property as Top Data Security Concern

A new study by Deloitte and the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation has found that 36 percent of manufacturing executives said intellectual property is their top concern when it comes to data security, followed by consumer information and inadvertent personal data disclosures. Deloitte and MAPI conducted 35 interviews with executives and industry organizations as well […] More

by Jane Edwards November 17, 2016, 4:32 am
in Cybersecurity News, News

Vencore Labs Secures 2 Contracts Under DARPA Power Grid Cyber Detection Program

A Vencore subsidiary has received two contracts worth approximately $17 million combined to perform work on two technical areas under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency“™s Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization Systems program. DARPA“™s RADICS initiative seeks to build systems designed to restore power within one week after a cyber attack on the electrical infrastructure through […] More

by Jane Edwards September 14, 2016, 6:44 am

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