CISA shifts grid defense toward resilience

- CISA launched CI Fortify, telling utilities to plan for compromised OT networks and lost connectivity during a crisis rather than assume perimeter defenses will hold. - The guidance asks operators to design for partial outages, manual fallbacks and continued operations under degraded communications. - The doctrinal shift raises resilience requirements for industrial operators and warehouses that depend on networked controls and cloud services. (powermag.com)