PRESS RELEASE
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Safety and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Mike Braun (R-IN) launched bipartisan laws to higher put together federal workers to handle severe cybersecurity threats. The invoice improves the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competitors, a nationwide cyber competitors that identifies and helps practice the perfect cybersecurity expertise within the federal workforce, by increasing the competitors to incorporate operational expertise (OT) and industrial management techniques (ICS). OT techniques and ICS techniques handle, monitor, and management industrial operations and are usually overshadowed within the cybersecurity world regardless that they type the spine of most main industries, utilities, and significant infrastructure networks.
“As international adversaries proceed to check our cybersecurity defenses, it’s extra necessary than ever to have a well-equipped workforce that’s ready to repel all cybersecurity threats,” stated Senator Peters. “My bipartisan invoice will preserve the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competitors on the leading edge as they search to coach our cybersecurity workforce.”
“The US prides itself in being a champion in cyber safety innovation, with many technical developments popping out of Indiana. I’m proudly cosponsoring this invoice that may improve our nationwide cybersecurity coaching competitors and in the end shield American expertise from cyber-attacks from all over the world,” stated Senator Braun.
Established in 2019, the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competitors is a nationwide competitors to coach, establish, acknowledge, and reward the perfect cybersecurity expertise within the federal workforce. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company (CISA) leads and hosts the President’s Cup as a part of their mission to develop the scale and capabilities of the U.S. cyber workforce.
The bipartisan Industrial Management Techniques Cybersecurity Competitors Act ensures the competitors consists of testing of expertise related to cybersecurity for operational expertise and industrial management techniques to make sure federal cybersecurity professionals are capable of successfully work with and assist essential infrastructure sectors. Most main industries and utility corporations depend on OT and ICS to carry out necessary duties corresponding to distributing energy throughout states, pumping water from reservoirs, and assembling autos in factories. Within the U.S., water utility corporations specifically have seen their internet-connected ICS gadgets focused and hacked by international adversaries. In November 2023, not less than 10 water utility corporations throughout the U.S. had been hacked by an Iran-backed group, permitting the hackers to close down remotely managed gadgets that monitor and regulate pumping station water stress.
