Nuclear security and IT managers take note: The University
of Maryland has announced experts from academia, industry and the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission will lead a workshop on nuclear plant cybersecurity this
spring.
The workshop May 4th and 5th in College Park, Md., will
focus on initiatives to protect commercial nuclear power plants from
cyber-based threats. It will address regulatory and programmatic cybersecurity
models developed by NRC and the private sector to protect industrial controls, process
automation and other critical systems from cyber attack.
In addition to current threat briefings and inspection
protocols, the workshop also will cover risk management, security planning, cross-sector
cyber protection and security program effectiveness metrics.
“Taking on big issues through collaborative efforts between
industry, government agencies and the university is just what we expected the
new Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) would accomplish,” UMD’s electrical and
computer engineering department chair and MC2 co-director Patrick O'Shea said
in a release.
“When representatives from the NRC came to us for help in
framing the discussion and providing an open forum for problem-solving, we knew
MC2 could play an important role. We are inviting technical experts as well as
policy makers for the federal government and the state of Maryland to engage on
this critical issue,” he said.