The Invisible Cybersecurity Challenge Transforming Advanced Power Grids: How Enterprise Asset Visibility Is Strengthening Critical Infrastructure Stability
Summary: A cybersecurity product specialist at a U.S. electric utility serving over 16 million customers led an enterprise asset visibility initiative covering all ODN and UDN network assets regardless of activity status. The work found that many assets missing from inventory were legitimate systems that changed operational states, connected intermittently, or fell outside traditional discovery processes, making the gaps a governance problem rather than a technology error.
What's compelling: In an environment of hundreds of thousands of technology assets, every vulnerability management, identity governance, and incident response process depends on knowing what exists - and intermittently connected devices rejoin the production network as attack surface the moment they reconnect.
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