Cybersecurity

National Grid CEO Sees ‘Huge Amounts’ of Cyber-Security Threats

  • Attacks seen coming from Middle East and `a lot from China'
  • Actual penetrations of systems counted on one hand, CEO says
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National Grid Plc is fending off “huge amounts” of cyber-security threats, though only a handful have penetrated the company’s computer systems, Chief Executive Officer Steve Holliday said.

The U.K. electricity-grid operator -- which also owns and operates power and gas networks in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island -- has identified some attacks from the Middle East and “a lot from China,” Holliday said in an interview at a Bloomberg New Energy Finance conference in London.