As executive management, the board of directors for public power utilities has two key responsibilities – the fiscal health of your utility and risk management for it. Among the biggest threats to both fiscal health and the management of risks today are cyberattacks. Knowing you are well protected from such threats usually falls on your IT department or a third-party IT company. But how do you know they are doing their best within the constraints to protect you? Most IT staffers are not cybersecurity experts and odds are you probably are not either.
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Interim Executive Rights the Ship for Smooth Sailing Ahead
When facing a senior management transition in its Electric Department, officials for the Town of Ashland, New Hampshire, searched for support from an experienced public power industry professional. They turned to a recently retired general manager working under a six-month interim contract arranged by MFP-Connect™, a leader in recruitment for the electric, natural gas, and water industries.
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Municipals Build Stronger Customer Relationships Using Personalized Messaging
At a recent industry conference, Apogee Interactive’s Executive Vice President, Jim Malcom shared how utilities are engaging customers using personalized outbound communications. Apogee is the public power industry’s Hometown Connections preferred provider for Customer Engagement.
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N-Dimension Ranked Amongst Top Managed Security Service Providers Worldwide for Fourth Consecutive Year
N-Dimension Solutions, a cybersecurity partner of Hometown Connections, Inc., has been recognized in MSSP Alert’s worldwide annual ranking of Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) for the fourth consecutive year. Once again, N-Dimension was ranked among the top cybersecurity companies worldwide.
Great Lakes Utilities of Wisconsin Invests in Hometown Connections, Inc.
To bring greater value to public power utilities in Wisconsin and across the United States, Great Lakes Utilities (GLU) has become the sixth joint action agency to invest in Hometown Connections, Inc.—a national, non-profit utility services organization providing industry-leading solutions to community-owned utilities. Read More about Great Lakes Utilities of Wisconsin Invests in Hometown Connections, Inc. »
Get Free Cybersecurity Monitoring–Act Now!
If you act quickly, your public power utility can access a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for one free year of the N-Sentinel Monitoring cybersecurity service by N-Dimension Solutions. You’ll gain visibility into critical information to help protect your utility networks from cyber threats in addition to helping the public power industry obtain the national cyber data it so urgently needs to share with member utilities in an anonymous fashion.
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Congratulations to the Hometown Connections Annual Award Winners
On August 26 at the 2019 Annual Meeting in Breckenridge, Colorado, Hometown Connections, Inc. announced twelve award winners in recognition of their outstanding efforts and results in support of the public power community. Read More about Congratulations to the Hometown Connections Annual Award Winners »
Cyber Threat Reality Check: Municipal Utilities Are Prime Targets
Reports of high profile cyber attacks on banks, insurance companies, large retailers, the military, and more are all over the media. In response, these institutions have dedicated great resources to harden their cyber defenses. While still targets, these major institutions are increasingly difficult to penetrate. So where are hackers turning their sights?
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Reduce Your Compliance Burden
Federal regulatory compliance obligations are complex and time-consuming. Minimize your utility’s workload and risk profile by bringing in Acumen to meet your obligations for NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), NERC Operations & Planning (O&P), NIST Cybersecurity, and Privacy regulations. Read More about Reduce Your Compliance Burden »
N-Dimension Partners with EMC to Deliver New Cyber Threat Protection Solution for Manufacturers
N-Dimension Solutions, a market leading Managed Detection and Remediation Services (MDR) provider with innovative solutions protecting IIoT, IoT, IT and OT networks from cyber threats, has launched a new version of its market leading N-Sentinel Suite, N-Sentinel Cyber Threat Detector, that meets specific criteria for manufacturing plants to help them reduce risk from cyber threats. Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC) and its members provided input to N-Dimension to guide definition of this new service, ensuring it met addressed their manufacturing needs.