Highlights Revokes Trump ban on China-linked equipment Kicks off 100-day plan to modernize utility cyber defenses Seeks comments on long-term strategy, future prohibitions The Department of Energy April 20 launched an aggressive 100-day plan to protect electric infrastructure from persistent and sophisticated cyber threats. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now DOE also lifted a prohibition by former President Donald Trump on procurement of certain bulk power system equipment from Chinese entities imposed on electric utilities that serve critical defense facilities, while opening a comment window to aid the development of a long-term strategy for addressing security of the US energy system. As adversaries increasingly look to compromise critical systems essential to US national and economic security, the new 100-day initiative will take “swift, aggressive actions” to bolster the cybersecurity of electric utilities’ industrial control systems and secure the energy sector supply chain, DOE […]