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SANS Institute cyber award to DHS

Issue No. 1 | January 01-15, 2012

The SANS Institute announced that the DHS National Cyber Security Division and Idaho National Laboratory have won the 2011 US National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for building cybersecurity skills needed to defend the power grid and other control systems. The Controls Systems Security Programme (CSSP) at DHS and Idaho National Laboratory have created a series of training programmes for managerial and technical people in the industries using control systems (power, oil and gas, power, water, and several others. These training programmes are packed with upto-date information on cyber threats and mitigations for vulnerabilities.

The goal is to reduce industrial control system risks within and across all critical infrastructure and key resource sectors by coordinating efforts among federal, state, local and tribal governments, as well as industrial control systems owners, operators and vendors, explains a news release issued by the SANS Institute. The CSSP coordinates activities to reduce the likelihood of success and severity of impact of a cyber-attack against critical infrastructure systems through risk-mitigation activities.