Interview with Ginny Wright, Program Director at Idaho National Lab, and Marc Sachs, former White House Advisor and Deputy Director for Research at Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security
Managing Risk from Concept to Operation: This is the focus of the Cyber-Informed Engineering Initiative (CIE), originated by Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and advanced by the Department of Energy. Grown from earlier Congressional direction regarding threats to the national energy infrastructure identified by the Office of National Intelligence, the recommendations reflect an ‘evolutionary’ shift to a ‘security-by-design’ mindset, according to Jennifer Granholm, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy.
The National Strategy for CIE was published in June of 2022, and program directors have since been focused on execution and quick implementation across the existing energy infrastructure and into new development and technologies. It is already gaining interest across the country and overseas.
In this video interview, “Ginger” Wright and Marc Sachs talk about their involvement in the CIE program since its early days, and how they helped…
