Accenture, Dragos and SANS launch $10M Community Cyber Resilience Foundation to fund OT security for small US utilities
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Accenture, Dragos and the SANS Institute announced the Community Cyber Resilience Foundation on 2026-10-21. It is a roughly $10 million mix of funding and services meant to help under-resourced US water, wastewater, electric and natural gas utilities secure their operational technology (OT) environments (securityweek.com, industrialcyber.co). The first phase covers up to 500 utilities, which receive free security tools, hardware, deployment help and training. The companies tie the launch to limited budgets, workforce shortages and aging technology at small operators, and to recent attacks they say hit more than 100 US water systems across over a dozen states (securityweek.com, industrialcyber.co). The sources name no actors, incidents or vulnerabilities, and securityweek.com describes this as program news with no direct threat. The initiative was announced at an Ohio roundtable hosted by Ohio Power Company (an American Electric Power subsidiary), Accenture and Dragos, and Elastic supports it (industrialcyber.co). It comes four months after Accenture agreed to acquire a majority stake in Dragos, part of an OT cybersecurity push valued at roughly $4.1 billion (securityweek.com).
Detalhes técnicos
- Eligibility: US-based water, wastewater, electric or natural gas utilities with annual revenue under $100 million. The sources estimate this covers more than 50,000 organizations, or over 97% of US utilities (securityweek.com, industrialcyber.co).
- Participants receive the Dragos Platform and related services for OT asset visibility and for understanding vulnerabilities and threats (industrialcyber.co). Elastic supplies the log storage and query engine behind the platform, based on Elasticsearch (industrialcyber.co).
- Accenture handles configuration, integration and ongoing support, and the foundation funds the hardware needed to run the platform (securityweek.com, industrialcyber.co).
- SANS trains utility staff in ICS/OT security so they can run defenses in-house, and participants join a peer network of utilities that share operational experience (securityweek.com, industrialcyber.co).
- The foundation builds on the Dragos Community Defense Program, launched in December 2023, which gives more than 100 utilities free access to the Dragos Platform (securityweek.com).
Remediação
No specific vulnerabilities or mitigations are described (industrialcyber.co). Eligible utilities can apply to the program to obtain OT monitoring, deployment support and training at no cost (industrialcyber.co).
Linha do tempo
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Accenture, Dragos and SANS launch $10M Community Cyber Resilience Foundation to fund OT security for under-resourced US utilities
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Accenture, Dragos and the SANS Institute announced the Community Cyber Resilience Foundation, an initiative of roughly $10 million in combined funding and services. It gives up to 500 under-resourced U.S. water, wastewater, electric and natural gas utilities free OT cybersecurity software, hardware, deployment services and training. The article ties the launch to a recent surge of cyberattacks against more than 100 U.S. water systems across over a dozen states, but gives no technical details, actors or incidents. The foundation builds on the Dragos Community Defense Program. Elastic supports it by supplying the log storage and query engine behind the Dragos Platform. It was announced at a roundtable in Ohio hosted by Ohio Power Company (an American Electric Power subsidiary), Accenture and Dragos.
Technical Details
- Eligibility: U.S. water, wastewater, electric and natural gas utilities with less than $100 million in annual revenue. The article says this covers over 97% of utilities, or more than 50,000 organizations.
- Participants get the Dragos Platform and services for OT asset visibility, vulnerability and threat understanding, with Elasticsearch as the underlying log storage and search layer.
- Accenture provides configuration, integration and ongoing support. SANS provides ICS/OT training. Hardware and infrastructure funding and a peer utility community are also included.
Remediation
The article describes no specific vulnerabilities or mitigations. Eligible utilities can apply to the program to obtain OT monitoring, deployment support and training at no cost.
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Accenture, Dragos and SANS launch $10M Community Cyber Resilience Foundation to protect small US utilities
ler a análise desta fonte ocultar
Accenture, Dragos and the SANS Institute announced the Community Cyber Resilience Foundation, a roughly $10 million mix of funding and services to help under-resourced US water, wastewater, electric and natural gas utilities secure their operational technology (OT) environments. The first phase covers up to 500 utilities, which receive free security tools, equipment, deployment help and training. The initiative responds to limited budgets, workforce shortages and aging technology at small operators, and to recent attacks the companies say hit more than 100 US water systems across over a dozen states. This is industry and program news with no direct threat or new vulnerability.
Technical Details
- Eligibility: US-based water, wastewater, electric or natural gas utilities with annual revenue under $100 million. The companies estimate this covers more than 50,000 organizations, or over 97% of US utilities.
- Participants receive the Dragos Platform and related services. Accenture handles setup, integration and ongoing support, and the foundation funds the hardware needed to run the platform.
- SANS trains utility staff in ICS/OT security so they can run defenses in-house, and participants join a peer network of utilities that share operational experience.
- The foundation builds on the Dragos Community Defense Program, launched in December 2023, which gives more than 100 utilities free access to the Dragos Platform.
- The announcement comes four months after Accenture agreed to acquire a majority stake in Dragos, part of an OT cybersecurity push valued at roughly $4.1 billion.