While state-sponsored cyber intrusions remain a primary national security concern, more than 80% of the nation’s energy infrastructure is owned and operated by the private sector. As such, close and continuous collaboration between government agencies and our domestic energy sector is critical to the identification and suppression of any potential cyber intrusion.
Dear Leader McConnell and Minority Leader Schumer: Our organizations, which represent nearly every sector of the U.S. economy, urge the Senate to pass H.R. 3359, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2017. This legislation would deepen America’s increasingly maturing public
Dear Secretary Bose The U.S. Chamber of Commerce welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) request for comments on its notice of proposed rulemaking Cyber Security Incident Reporting Reliability Standards. The Chamber respects FERC’s interest in
In late December, the White House released its new National Security Strategy that describes U.S. interests and how the Trump Administration plans to advance them in the coming years. The administration sees energy as playing a big role. The Strategy is organized around four pillars: Protecting the
The Energy Institute supports both the process and the product related to Reliability Standard EOP-010-1 (Geomagnetic Disturbance Operations), and thus supports the standard’s proposed adoption.