A simulated widespread enemy attack on the North American electric power network this week created a disaster scenario, challenging grid operators to repel coordinated cyber intrusions and assaults on ...

A simulated terrorist attack on the North American power grid last November exposed weaknesses in handling cyberthreat data and marshaling emergency support to restore electric power service to ...

NERC’s Grid Security Exercise (GridEx) will be held November 13-14 and is an opportunity for utilities to demonstrate how they would respond to and recover from simulated coordinated cyber and ...

NERC’s grid security exercise, GridEx VI, has concluded the distributed play portion of its exercise. Over the past two days, more than 700 planners led their organizations’ efforts to exercise their ...

The nation’s grid watchdog says social media was used to stress utilities during a two-day simulated attack on the electric grid that the government conducted with the industry last year, while phony ...

Charles Murray, MBA ’17, is cofounder and president of Switched Source, a grid-optimization startup that was founded in a ...

The exercise tests cyber and physical security incident response protocols and coordination. Electric company leaders and federal and state government officials recently participated in GridEx VII, ...