Cybersecurity at U.S. utilities due for an upgrade: Tech to detect intrusions into industrial control systems will be mandatory [News]

The hackers who unplugged 225,000 people from the Ukrainian electricity grid in December-the first confirmed cyber-takedown of a power system-have lent credence to calls by cybersecurity experts for greater vigilance by utilities. "It's really brought the whole thing to a head and made people aware that this isn't just chatter about the sky falling," says Eric Byres, a security consultant who commercialized one of the first firewalls for industrial control systems.