This momentary power outage amused baseball fans but should be a wake up call for us all. America's enemies are working hard to shut the lights off for a LONG time. They know it's "Game Over" for America without electricity, so we MUST Secure the Grid!
The directive by @POTUS for a Space Force could bring us from MAD to SANE: "Strategic Assured National Existence." This effort must get underway ASAP and with DETERMINED LEADERSHIP to employ space-based missile defense and Secure The Grid from EMP!! https://t.co/GnFedtGO9I
Dr. Peter Pry provides a concise analysis of the real and significant danger posed by Moscow's megalomaniac: Poseidon. It's just one example of Russia's nuclear superiority, which must be reversed by @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/Y3sDmNqlt5
With @FERC providing top-cover for @NERC they signal to the owners and operators of our nation’s most critical infrastructure that the “business as usual” culture of lackadaisical security can remain in place for adversaries to exploit. This may result in widespread suffering.
President Trump cannot rely on DOD, DOE, or DHS to accomplish what needs to be done to protect the American people against the existential EMP threat. We need @realDonaldTrump to appoint a competent Executive Agent from the White House to lead the effort! https://t.co/jT8JnByu3K
Dr. Peter Pry "On Wealth, War and Peace."
Heed Vegetius and Plato, who said: “If you would have peace, prepare for war.” And remember, always, Tacitus: “Woe to the vanquished.”
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission. He served on the staff of the House Armed Services Committee and at the CIA.
EMP Manhattan Project: organizing for survival ...
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With Dr. Peter PryDaily tolls of potential EMP attack ...
Warning: Daily toll of EMP attack, 574 deaths, $35.7 billion, ‘a civilization killer’
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An attack on the nation’s electric grid, from a solar storm, terrorist or enemy like North Korea, ...The Hill ...
We do need a more secure grid, but the administration’s solutions don’t add up
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Propping up aging power plants that have reached or surpassed their retirement age just doesn’t ma...PG&E Taking Action After FERC Fine for Cybersecurity Breach.
PG&E Taking Action After FERC Fine for Cybersecurity Breach
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2 months....what no one was monitoring traffic flow access/authoriz, or audit logs????????????????????????
Confronting Cyber Attacks to the US Electric Grid.
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Confronting Cyber Attacks to the US Electricity Grid | RealClearEnergy
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The U.S. electricity grid that powers our homes, businesses, and entire economy is increasingly unde...
well, that's the first sensible thing i've seen/read about a dem doing. just as in business which nearly all rely as lifeblood on their IT ntwks, its securitization is due diligence that Grid IT/InfoSec has executive level support w/in the DOE. a major component of that exec level support/oversight which was not mentioned, securitization of proper budgetary allotment/funding to ensure proper InfoSec oversight/mgmt/operation of the Grid's vast assets, physical/digital in operational risk reduction/mitigation and DR (disaster recovery). i'd also hope that part of that office's due diligence to the grid would include the speedy acquisition of hdwr 'safety stock', transformers don't grow on trees, they must be at present, imported from ....... China. this vulnerability is a must fix.
Overheard at the NAES-NERC Conference.
Overheard at the NAES-NERC Conference | RTO Insider
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Introducing the YouTube channel of cyber engineer Nathan S. Wallace. Enjoy his videos on many Grid topics.
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PG&E Identified as Utility That Lost Control of Confidential Information.
PG&E Identified as Utility That Lost Control of Confidential Information
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PG&E was identified as the utility that authorities had fined in May for losing control of a databas...Save the EMP Commission!
America: The DOD and HASC has failed you!
At a time when nuclear-capable North Korea threatens the United States daily with the prospect of a high altitude nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack (which they have been rehearsing for much of the past decade), and as the sun continues to produce technology-killing geomagnetic solar storms, and as both state and non-state sponsored hackers continue to penetrate our grid with malicious and potentially devastating cyber attacks, the House Armed Services Committee and Department of Defense have, as of July 31, 2017, dismantled the only honest arbiter working to get the dysfunctional federal government to address these growing threats – The Congressional EMP Commission.
To learn more about this critical failure of the DOD and HASC and what YOU can do to help, please visit the “Take Action!” tab and download the “Save the EMP Commission” PDF.
Attacks on Electrical Substations
Attacks on electrical substations have underscored one of America’s most serious vulnerabilities: If the power goes off and stays off, our Nation and the vast majority of its population will cease to exist.
In addition to natural causes (geomagnetic disturbances (GMD) a.k.a. solar storms), the grid can be seriously disrupted for prolonged periods by four man-made events, including physical assaults, radio frequency devices (RFD), cyberattack, and high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP). Such events could disrupt and/or destroy outright key parts of the power grid, prompting the cascading collapse of substations and effecting every one of the other 15 critical infrastructures that assure the availability of water, food, medicine, finance, transportation, telecommunications, etc., possibly for years.
The good news is that we know how to fix the electric grid’s vulnerabilities. Known and relatively affordable technologies can protect our power grid and the 21st Century American economy, society and people that absolutely depend upon it.
Learn about the threat – and what you can do about it.
Our Nation’s 16 Critical Infrastructure Sectors are:
- Energy
- Defense Industrial Base
- Communications
- Healthcare & Public Health
- Emergency Services
- Water & Wastewater Systems
- Transportation Systems
- Food & Agriculture
- Information Technology
- Financial Services
- Nuclear Reactors, Materials & Waste
- Chemical
- Commercial Facilities
- Critical Manufacturing
- Dams
- Government Facilities
These infrastructures are dependent on electricity and technology.
– Ted Koppel
