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infrastructure against cyber-related threats and other physical hazards, part of what a senior agency official said is the prioritization of \u201cthe operational technology side of the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The All-Hazards Energy Resilience funding opportunity will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/doe-announces-70-million-strengthen-energy-sector-against-physical-and-cyber-hazards\">managed<\/a> by the DOE\u2019s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response, and a senior CESER official said in an interview with FedScoop that the agency is specifically interested in OT-related proposals that explore how one might produce a zero-trust architecture in an electrical or oil and natural gas environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the cybersecurity community has come leaps and bounds in the last decade and a half,\u201d the CESER official said. The OT side of the network will become \u201ceven more complex as we move to distributed energy kind of resource footprint. And those architectures modernize those capabilities to do cybersecurity and defend from those persistent threats [that] are a little bit more nascent in that kind of energy sector OT field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With awards of up to $5 million in funds, the DOE said it\u2019s looking for universities, tribal nations, companies and others to provide solutions for technology meant to protect critical energy infrastructure from all threats, such as malicious cyber attacks and bad actors. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The DOE\u2019s release acknowledges that the \u201cgrowing digital landscapes\u201d put existing energy systems at risk for attacks. For example, two department entities were victims of a cyberattack that resulted from a vulnerability in <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/energy-department-cl0p-moveit-cisa\/\">MOVEit file transfer software<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are real risks to infrastructure; a lot of research in the world heretofore has been to prevent entry and detect it once it\u2019s there,\u201d the CESER senior official said. \u201cThings are going to happen and when they do, you have to be able to operate your electrical or oil or natural gas infrastructure in a degraded mode, even potentially through that compromise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The official said that the research awards are \u201cthreat-informed\u201d but could not comment on any specifically targeted infrastructure from bad actors. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entry vectors into the sector are many,\u201d the official said. \u201cThere are IT pathways where you\u2019re coming in the IT front door, traversing the network and getting into the OT network. 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