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Key Situational Awareness & Response Strategies Your Frontline Workers Need to Stay Secure

How to Protect Utility Customers from Scams: A Conversation with Utilities United Against Scams Executive Director Michelle Martinez

By Curtis Marquardt

Partnering with Law Enforcement to Improve Bomb Threat Prevention and Response: A Conversation with the Office for Bomb Prevention’s Charles Leas

By Curtis Marquardt

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Your command center for all things utility security! From power plant warriors to grid guardians, and even curious citizens, this publication is your essential briefing on securing our nations utilities.

Danger From Above

Bill Edwards

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Substation Security Challenges: Conducting Threat Assessments

Jim Willis, MSc, CMAS, CHS1

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Are Assumptions Compromising Your Substation Security?

Jim Willis, M.Sc., CMAS, CHS-V

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SOLUTIONS FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY LEADERS & DECISION MAKERS

How Unified Physical Security Solutions are Helping Utilities

In the US, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has identified 16 critical infrastructure sectors ranging from Food and Agriculture to Manufacturing, Communications, Public Health, Transportation, and Energy & Utilities. These sectors are so vital that any incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on the nation’s stability. Among these sectors, the Energy […]

Yaron Zussman Shares Insights into the True Financial Impacts that Perimeter Security False Alarms Can Have on a Utility and What You Can Do to Reduce Them

The Real Bottom-Line Costs of False Alarms

Utility security professionals know it takes a multilayered approach to have effective security. What might not be known is just how multilayered the financial impact of false alarms can be to a utility. We sat down with Yaron Zussman from Magos to talk about the bottom-line costs of false alarms and what your organization can do to ensure they are minimized. Utility Security: What are the biggest challenges utilities face when it comes to implementing a perimeter security strategy that minimizes false alarms? Yaron Zussman: One challenge I often see is that organizations mi…

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Why Utility Cyberattack Risks Continue to Rise

Five Questions with Utility Technology Association President Vicky Wilson Turner

The Annual New York City-located Event Happening November 19-21 Will Host a Utility-Focused Lunch Event, Unveil New Guide to NERC CIP Compliance & More

ISC East Offers Utility Security Professionals a Wide-Range of Industry Specific Education & Resources

Utility and critical infrastructure protection will have a prominent role at ISC East in November. With its location in New York City and a regional reach from Boston to Washington, D.C., ISC East—the smaller brother of the nation’s largest security trade show, ISC West—this year will be putting…

As Violence Increases and Police Resources Decrease, Your Utility Workers Out in the Field Need to Possess Vital Skills that Will Keep Them Safe

The Four Crucial Employee Security Skill Sets

There is an old axiom that goes, “When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.” Today, this is an understatement. Law enforcement departments across the nation are understaffed and underfunded at unprecedented levels, leaving responding officers overwhelmed, physically overtaxed and overstressed, and exiting the profession at astonishing rates of attrition. So, what does this have to do…

Ross Johnson Walks Through an Impactful Substation Protection Strategy

Will Your Critical Substation Survive an Attack?

Will your critical substation survive an attack? How would you know? We install security systems to protect our substations. Critical sites would likely include some kind of barrier, like a fence or a wall; a video surveillance system (VSS); an access control system, combining a locking mechanism with a card reader or PIN pad; lighting; a security monitoring center; and some kind of response forc…

Security Moves Pretty Fast. Don’t Miss It!

About 18 months ago, we began our process of creating Utility Security magazine. And as we gear up to attend the Global Security Exchange (GSX) conference this September in Orlando, Florida, it made me think back to last year’s GSX and how it was the very first security event I attended. With fr…

The Unseen Battleground: Defending Utilities in a New Age of Threats

I saw a video on social media recently that posed the question of whether we are already fighting World War III; the video suggested that most people do not realize such a thing could be happening because the warfare has changed to different stratagems and battlegrounds than those used in the past…

It’s the End of the Year As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

What a year it has been! We here at Utility Security magazine are proud of the year one success of this publication. After 20 years serving the utility industry with our safety publication, Incident Prevention magazine, and our fleet management publication, Utility Fleet Professional, we know from…

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Meet NERC CIP Compliance Guidelines with ALCEA High Security Locking Solutions

. North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) compliance standards obligate utilities with critical assets to take steps to address physical security risks and vulnerabilities. They also require all electric utilities to have a physical security plan and program in place to monitor and…