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FERC Pushes Utilities to Adopt Protection Standards for Both Cyber and Physical Security

By Dan Rueckert & Forrest Terrell

Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano Announces New Cybersecurity Team

New government standards appear well-timed for improving the resiliency of critical network operations in electric generation and transmission systems and combatting cybersecurity and physical security threats. In April 2014, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) decided to adopt the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Version 5 standard for cybersecurity. This… Keep reading →

 /  Published January 14, 2015 at 11:00 AM

The Very Real Challenge of a Tesla Pickup Truck

By Earth Techling

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Call it the Tesla Truck, the Tesla Pickup Truck, or the Tesla-150, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made it clear that the electric carmaker plans to make a pickup truck. In fact, he couldn’t be clearer: he plans to make something to compete with the best-selling light-duty vehicle on American roads: the Ford F-150.… Keep reading →

 /  Published April 15, 2014 at 2:00 PM