National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (NDAA), Securing Energy Infrastructure Act (December 2019), Section 5726 requires the Secretary of Energy to establish a two-year pilot program within the National Laboratories, in partnership with energy sector Section 9 owners and operators and critical component manufacturers, to identify new classes of energy sector security vulnerabilities and evaluate technology and standards that isolate and defend industrial control systems from security vulnerabilities and exploits in the most critical energy sector systems. The Secretary must establish a working group to evaluate the technology and standards identified by the pilot and to develop a national cyber-informed engineering strategy to isolate and defend energy sector Section 9 entities from security vulnerabilities and exploits in their most critical systems. In addition, the NDAA requires DOE CESER to work with interagency partners to better assess and mitigate the effects from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) and Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD) on critical energy infrastructure as well as to collaborate on the response and recovery efforts related to these hazards.
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