New rule would give electric utilities incentives for investing in cybersecurity
Whenever I see the phrase &quot;investment in cybersecurity&quot;, I sigh a little bit. It&#x27;s nice to spend money on important things, and you can seldom improve anything without spending money on it. But cybersecurity is one of the things that you can&#x27;t improve just by enlarging its budget. You build a culture. You hire personnel who care about it. You train your employees. You set policies and establish structures.<p>You can&#x27;t just purchase a &quot;deluxe cybersecurity firewall appliance&quot; and plug it into your network, even if it costs $50,000. I bet that a lot of people believe that&#x27;s what it takes, though.<p>Compare this to, say, education funding. It&#x27;s good to spend more money on schools, right? I mean, teachers gotta be paid, students need (Chrome)books. But I always vote &quot;no&quot; on municipal school bond measures. I believe that money isn&#x27;t everything, and I believe that it funds the wrong kind of things. The measures always pass, though, so don&#x27;t worry, I&#x27;m not oppressing all the little kids in town.