Ex-US National Security Official Clarke: Regulation Key To Protecting ICS/SCADA From Cyberattacks

"Richard Clarke, the former US National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counterterrorism and White House official under three administrations, in a keynote here today proposed a Y2K-style initiative to tighten security in industrial control system (ICS) networks that would require sites to meet certain security levels by a specific date. ... [He] said this security effort would require what he described as the 'dirtiest word in Washington:' regulation." Read more here.

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