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Robert Brese: Cyber Defense Strategy Includes Active Response

The Energy Department’s new chief information officer recently said federal agencies should have a prevent-recover-respond mindset in responding to cyber attacks, AOL Government reports. Robert Brese said at the Government Technology Research Alliance conference Sunday that many agencies still have an overly defensive mindset, which he termed as a prevent-recover strategy. The response part of his [...]

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IBM’s Sequoia Supercomputer Deemed World’s Fastest

June 19, 2012 2 Comments

An IBM-built supercomputer now holds the title of the world’s fasted computing system, the Energy Department announced Monday. Sequoia resides at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. and the National Nuclear Security Administration uses the supercomputer to help manage the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile. Technology website Top500.org released its list of the world’s 500 [...]

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IBM Says New Platform Decodes Genetic Sequences, Simulates Nuclear Weapons

November 18, 2011 No Comment

IBM announced its next generation supercomputing project, Blue Gene/Q, to be housed in the Energy Department. It will will provide an ultra-scale technical computing platform to solve the most challenging problems facing engineers and scientists. Blue Gene/Q is expected to predict the path of hurricanes, analyze the ocean floor to discover oil, simulate nuclear weapons performance [...]

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Department of Energy Planning for a More Secure Infrastructure

September 19, 2011 No Comment

The Department of Energy recently released its “2011 Roadmap to Achieve Energy Delivery Systems Cybersecurity,” outlining strategic framework over the next decade to design, install, operate and maintain energy delivery systems capable of surviving a cyber incident and sustaining critical functions. The report identifies five strategies on which the government and private-sector organizations should collaborate [...]

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DOE Kicks Off Cyber Initiative with NIST to Protect Power Grid

February 7, 2011 No Comment

The Department of Energy has unveiled an initiative that seeks to bolster cybersecurity on the electric grid in cooperation with industry and government, as well as publicly and privately owned utilities. Spearheaded by the Department’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the North American Electric Reliability [...]

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Utility Companies to Invest Billions on Cybersecurity

February 9, 2010 2 Comments

Within the next five years, utility companies will likely invest $21 billion on cybersecurity to protect electrical grids, according to a new report by Pike Research. Much of the increased spending (investment will triple between 2010-2015) will be driven by configuration management and equipment protection. As the United Stats and other nations look to increasing [...]

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DOE to Set Up Cyber Force to Protect Power Grid

January 19, 2010 No Comment

The US Department of Energy announced its plans to spend $8.5 million for a cyber security unit to help protect the US electric power grid according to an article on Networkworld.com. The unit, known as “National Energy Sector Cyber Organization,” will help to integrate smart grid technology to ensure the resiliency of US power grid [...]

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DOE may be at risk for cyber attack

December 28, 2009 No Comment

The Department of Energy (DOE) may be at risk for cyber attack according to a recent report by the Inspector General. If the DOE fail to upgrade their security measures, they risk a security breach and possible loss worth millions of dollars. The Office of Science in the DOE has delayed standardization of computer protocols [...]

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