UTILITIES' SECURITY IS TOO LAX, REPORT SAYS

摘要

Gas And Electric Utilities Are Under Attack for lax security that leaves their control systems vulnerable to cyber- and physical threats. A General Accounting Office report released last week cited a number of security problems, and witnesses at a congressional hearing presented a mix of dire predictions and power-company defenses. "Our systems have been designed to be open and don't have the needed level of security," says Joe Weiss, a power consultant at systems integrator Kema Inc. "The entire industrial infrastructure was developed for efficiency and production, not security issues."