Supporting Our Underserved Utilities: Launching the Community Cyber Resilience Foundation
Summary: Dragos, with Accenture and the SANS Institute, announced the Community Cyber Resilience Foundation, a nonprofit offering free security software, training, and OT-CERT membership to U.S. electric, gas, and water utilities with under $100 million in revenue. The Foundation launches with $10 million in resources for phase one, aiming to onboard up to 500 utilities on top of the more than 100 already in the Dragos Community Defense Program, with over 50,000 U.S. utilities qualifying.
What you should know: Roughly 97% of U.S. utilities bring in less than $100 million in revenue, and many have no IT staff at all, so the free software Dragos already gave out often went unused because no one was there to install or run it. An adversary who compromises one of these small utilities can create problems for larger utilities and for national security, and more than 100 water utilities were attacked on the OT side in a single campaign earlier this year.
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