A 100-day race to boost cybersecurity will rely on incentives rather than regulation, the White House said. The plan comes in the wake of a report that a quarter of the 1,500 utilities across North America were infected with the SolarWinds malware, now formally attributed to Russian state actors. Bloomberg reported that the final version of the plan could be released as early as this week. It will also give the Energy Department the ability to expand its current classified program to flag power-grid vulnerabilities.
Source: https://threatpost.com/biden-power-grid-hacks/165428/