Biden rushes to protect power grid as hacking threats grow

Among its core tenets, the Biden administration’s so-called “action plan” will incentivise power utilities to install sophisticated new monitoring equipment to more quickly detect hackers, and to share that information widely with the US government. — AP

A White House plan to rapidly shore up the security of the US power grid will begin with a 100-day sprint, but take years more to transform utilities’ ability to fight off hackers, according to details of a draft version of the plan confirmed by two people.

The plan is the policy equivalent of a high-wire act: it provides incentives for electric companies to dramatically change the way they protect themselves against cyberattacks while trying to avoid political tripwires that have stalled previous efforts, the details suggest.