the Department of Homeland Security ( the Department of Homeland Security ) has begun a nationwide programme alongside FBI (DHS) warning of the dangers the US faces from cyber attacks on its electricity grid. The programme includes 12 briefings, online webinars and sessions in cities nationwide, which are designed to provide power infrastructure companies and other organisations involved in security with lessons that have been learned from the December 2015 attacks on the grid in Ukraine . "It is only a matter of the ‘when,’ not the ‘if’—we’re going to see a nation-state, group, or actor engage in destructive behavior against critical infrastructure in the United States," Rogers, who is also director of the National Security Agency, said in a speech March 2. An internal DHS intelligence report from December 2015 stated that the risk of cyber attack against Ukraine electrical infrastructure was low.
the Department of Homeland Security ( the Department of Homeland Security ) has begun a nationwide programme alongside FBI (DHS) warning of the dangers the US faces from cyber attacks on its electricity grid. The programme includes 12 briefings, online webinars and sessions in cities nationwide, which are designed to provide power infrastructure companies and other organisations involved in security with lessons that have been learned from the December 2015 attacks on the grid in Ukraine . An internal DHS intelligence report from December 2015 stated that the risk of cyber attack against Ukraine electrical infrastructure was low.