Sai Huda is the author of the best-selling book, Next Level Cybersecurity: Detect the Signals, Stop the Hack, which reveals a seven step method to detect the cyber attackers in time to prevent loss or damage. In the book, he describes a scenario in which cybercriminals worked through suppliers to plan an attack that could cost as much as $243 billion in lost lives, and disrupted business on the East Coast. Previously, as the general manager of risk, information security and compliance solutions for FIS, a Fortune 500 company, he led a team of risk management and cybersecurity experts that assisted clients in various critical sectors with attacker detection software and consulting services to detect and prevent cyber attacks.
Recently, the nonprofit North American Electric Reliability Corporation fined one utility $10 million for numerous cybersecurity deficiencies that compromised the integrity of its infrastructure. In addition, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has recently issued new standards for protecting utilities’ supply chains and upgrading their risk management procedures. Fines and audits cost utilities money, but successful cyberattacks are far more expensive. What can be done? Solutions range from a detailed cybersecurity assessment to simulate cybersecurity audits by regulators to identify any deficiencies proactively. Performing a "crown jewels" or "cyber assets" analysis to make sure signals of attackers can be detected in time, following the seven step method in Sai Huda's ground-breaking book, Next Level Cybersecurity.
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