Wednesday 8 May 2019

Electricity grid cybersecurity will be expensive – who will pay, and how much?

Recently, a neighbor asked one of us whether Russia, China, North Korea and Iran really are capable of hacking into the computers that control the U.S. electricity grid. The answer, based on available evidence, is "Yes." The follow-up question was, "How expensive will it be to prevent, and who will end up paying for it?"

* This article was originally published here