Tomorrow: Water Sector Cyber Resilience Briefing – You can Demand Secure by Design and Default

Join us tomorrow at 2:00 PM ET for our monthly Cyber Resilience Briefing when when presenters from CISA’s Secure by Design initiative will discuss the role we all have in creating a more cyber secure future and practical steps for asset owners to demand security when in product, software, and service procurement discussions. While each utility is responsible for its own cybersecurity, we aren’t all experts. It’s impractical for asset owners and operators to understand everything there is to know about the devices and software used to build our infrastructure – all the features, functions, secure configurations, vulnerabilities, etc. – especially for smaller or less resourced utilities. However, there is a way forward and we all have a role to play. We must work with manufacturers, suppliers, and integrators to demand secure-by-design products and secure-by-default configurations for the systems we use.

Join us tomorrow at 2:00 PM ET for our monthly Cyber Resilience Briefing when when presenters from CISA’s Secure by Design initiative will discuss the role we all have in creating a more cyber secure future and practical steps for asset owners to demand security when in product, software, and service procurement discussions. While each utility is responsible for its own cybersecurity, we aren’t all experts. It’s impractical for asset owners and operators to understand everything there is to know about the devices and software used to build our infrastructure – all the features, functions, secure configurations, vulnerabilities, etc. – especially for smaller or less resourced utilities. However, there is a way forward and we all have a role to play. We must work with manufacturers, suppliers, and integrators to demand secure-by-design products and secure-by-default configurations for the systems we use.