Accenture, Dragos, and SANS Institute Launch Foundation to Strengthen Cyber Defenses for Under-Resourced U.S. Utilities
Summary: Accenture, Dragos, and the SANS Institute announced the Community Cyber Resilience Foundation on October 20, 2026, to provide free cybersecurity software, hardware, deployment services, and SANS training to up to 500 under-resourced U.S. water, electric, and natural gas utilities. The three organizations made an initial combined commitment of approximately $10 million, and the announcement came amid a surge in cyberattacks targeting more than 100 U.S. water systems across over a dozen states.
Bottom line: Eligible utilities are those with less than $100 million in annual revenue, a group that covers more than 97% of U.S. utilities and more than 50,000 organizations, while the first phase reaches only up to 500 of them.
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