EnergySec is a community of information security, physical security, audit, disaster recovery and business continuity professionals from energy industry utilities. Participation is international, including all regions throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. EnergySec operates many programs, events and technology solutions designed to help improve the security posture of the energy sector.

The National Electric Sector Cybersecurity Organization is a partially funded Department of Energy program. Please read more about this organization by clicking on the NESCO tab above or going to this Department of Energy webpage - http://energy.gov/oe/services/cybersecurity/nesco

4/25/2012 - Patrick Miller, President and CEO of EnergySec and Principal Investigator of the National Electric Sector Organization spoke at the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus. Read his complete comments here - http://grids.ec/Icp3GV

3/1/2012 - Please join us in congratulating, Evan Pena from the University of Texas at San Antonio, as the winner of the first  SCADA related Cyber Quest launched in February 2012 by the US Cyber Challenge. Evan scored a perfect 29 in 6 minutes and 55 seconds. This was out of 610 registered participants. The average score was 6.19.  Evan will be presented his award by Mike Assante at the NESCO Town Hall meeting on May 30th.

The participants of this challenge were involved in the analysis of forensic artifacts related to a cyber event. The focus of the SCADA quest was to introduce participants to industry specific technology and generate interest among university students towards security work in the electric sector.

02/07/2012 - AlertEnterprise announces its sponsorship of cyber security initiatives spearheaded by the National Electric Sector Cybersecurity Organization (NESCO). This sponsorship aims to assist NESCO with its objective to foster and enhance cyber security best practices through an avenue of information sharing within the electric sector. "In addition to a significant financial contribution to NESCO's initiatives, AlertEnterprise has provided thought leadership, best practices and expertise highly useful to NESCO and its participants," Patrick Miller, EnergySec CEO said. 

The full press release can be read here - http://grids.ec/alertsponsor . For more information about sponsoring NESCO, please contact us at info@energysec.org or 1-877-267-4732.

02/06/2012 - NESCO releases a new white paper entitled "PKI Security Considerations for AMI, Smart Grid, and ICS Networks". This paper describes common problems associated with large-scale deployment of PKI technology in two sets of emerging and legacy technologies used within the electric sector: Smart Grid / AMI and ICS networks. Common weaknesses in the provisioning of PKI within these environments are described. Recommended mitigations and questions that are intended to guide further discussions among electric sector asset owners, operators, equipment manufacturers, and vendors are provided at the end of this paper. Read the paper in its entirety - http://grids.ec/pkisecurity