Secure the Grid Coalition
The Secure the Grid Coalition is an ad hoc group of policy, energy, and national security experts, legislators, and industry insiders who are dedicated to strengthening the resilience of America’s electrical grid. The Coalition aims to raise awareness about the national and international threat of grid vulnerability, and encourage the steps needed to neutralize it.
The Basics
The electric grid is essential to all of our lives
Every human being in the U.S. is literally on life support – plugged in to the electric grid. If somebody unplugs us, everything necessary to sustain our human population stops: food, water, fuel, transportation, medical, communications, financial—everything. The electric grid is vulnerable to numerous threats and we know (from this Senate report) that in a long-term national-scale blackout, millions of U.S. citizens could die. After only a few weeks, we would die in droves from waterborne diseases, starvation and societal collapse. And what if the grid went down for longer than a few weeks?
But let’s back up. What is the electric grid and how is it regulated?
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- Renowned Cybersecurity Expert: “ICS cyber security is the second coming of the Maginot Line – and the Chinese have breached it”on July 6, 2020
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- China: EMP Threat – A New Report by Dr. Peter Pryon June 22, 2020
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- FERC Denies Grid Physical Security Complaint, BUT…on June 14, 2020
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- Secure the Grid Coalition Opposes Senate Bill S.3688on June 6, 2020
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- Shining sunlight on a massive cybersecurity cover-upon June 5, 2020
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- Electric Industry Lobbyist’s China Ties Questionedon May 14, 2020
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- Will grid regulators FINALLY take security seriously?on May 12, 2020
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- Supply Chain Cybersecurity Complaint Filed with FERCon May 12, 2020
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