Israel Electric Opens Cyber-War Room to Defend Against Power-Grid Hacks

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-19/israel-electric-opens-cyber-war-room-to-defend-against-power-grid-hacks.html

By Gwen Ackerman
Bloomberg
Feb 19, 2014

Israel's main power company opened a cyber "war room" this week to defend 
its systems around the clock from hackers. Technicians at Israel Electric 
will monitor as many as 400 million cyber-attacks and hacking attempts a 
day.

"There are hundreds of thousands of attempts to infiltrate Israel 
Electric's networks every day," Israel Electric Chairman Yiftach Ron-Tal 
said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. "We are talking here about a 
threat on a national level."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that one goal of his government 
is to turn Israel into a world leader in cyber-technologies. In 2012, 
Netanyahu formed the National Cyber Bureau, which said last month that it 
plans to establish an emergency-response team for cyber-attacks. President 
Shimon Peres has spent the last month making public appearances to promote 
Israeli technology, including cyber-security.

In the past three years, the country's cyber-security industry has grown 
from a few dozen companies to about 220 that have raised more than $400 
million, according to the Tel Aviv-based IVC Research Center. Twenty 
multinational companies now operate online-security development centers in 
Israel.

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