DEF CON hackers add new muscle to water utility protection
It will initially fund five providers - Defendify, Legato Security, L1 Secure, Rapid7, and Sentinel Technologies - to help small water utilities serving fewer than 10,000 people detect and mitigate breaches. The security providers will exchange threat info and share that with the NRWA, which provides technical assistance and operational support to small water and wastewater utilities across all 50 states. “And then below that, we have volunteers who can help, and connect water utilities to MSSPs, so we’re not just sending alerts.
- ▪It will initially fund five providers - Defendify, Legato Security, L1 Secure, Rapid7, and Sentinel Technologies - to help small water utilities serving fewer than 10,000 people detect and mitigate breaches.
- ▪The security providers will exchange threat info and share that with the NRWA, which provides technical assistance and operational support to small water and wastewater utilities across all 50 states.
- ▪“And then below that, we have volunteers who can help, and connect water utilities to MSSPs, so we’re not just sending alerts.
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