Karen Evans, the new head of the Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response, told a congressional panel she plans to distill threat and intelligence data into reports that critical infrastructure providers can act on immediately.
Private sector personnel won’t necessarily need security clearances to view such reports. Critical infrastructure providers have complained about the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to share threat information, which can require infrastructure provider employees get security clearances to see that data. In contrast, CESER would explain the immediate actions needed to respond to a threat, but without getting into the explicit, possibly classified, details of the threat itself.