The Department of Energy and its cyber wing, the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response have opened $9 million in competitive federal funding for small and rural electric utilities to make cybersecurity improvements. The money, part of the Advanced Cybersecurity Technology Prize Competition, will allow badly underfunded smaller and rural utilities and cooperatives in the electric sector to apply for chunks of funding that will go towards building more cyber resilience in their infrastructure that could defend against cyberattacks, ransomware actors and other digital threats.

Source: SC Magazine