The Dept. of Energy (DoE) has issued a call for to electric-power companies that encourages them to make cybersecurity a top priority by setting up a “cybersecurity governance board” to oversee an internal cybersecurity program for protection and share information with the DoE.

In exchange for information about sensitive information, such as identifying network vulnerabilities or attacks, the government will share this “benchmarking data” that’s given to it anonymously with any other utility that participates in the information-sharing.

via Dept. of Energy wants electric utilities to create “cybersecurity governance board”.

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