By The Star Staff
As part of his commitment to improve cybersecurity in the systems of Luma Energy and Genera Puerto Rico, the representative of District #4 of San Juan, Víctor Parés, held a meeting with the executive director of the Office of Innovation and Technology Services (PRITS), Antonio Ramos, where he requested to conduct cyber attack simulations on the electrical grid to address any failure in the systems.
“I want to thank the Executive Director of PRITS for expeditiously responding to our request for a meeting to determine how we can help safeguard the integrity of the cyber network that manages Puerto Rico’s electrical infrastructure. Law 40-2024, which encompasses 120 state agencies and 78 municipalities, does not currently have a direct definition on how we can help the companies contracted for electrical services. That is an area that we are going to work on starting in January 2025, but before that we have to do something,” said the Representative of the New Progressive Party.
“Our goal is to conduct cybersecurity drills on the Luma and Genera networks periodically to find out how they are doing and what, if anything, we can do to provide greater support in terms of cybersecurity. This is an important issue. Let us remember that the systems of the Senate of Puerto Rico, as well as the Water and Sewer Authority, were compromised by this type of attack. With the electrical system, a similar attack could be catastrophic,” added Parés.
As part of his legislative agenda for the next four years, the Representative emphasized the need to make certain amendments to Law 40-2-24. The first amendment would give PRITS the power to carry out assessments to identify and mitigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities in verified companies through the Public-Private Partnership Authority. Another amendment will facilitate the creation of an application (APP) to handle, as a simulation, the management of a cyberattack with the objective of developing new platforms that avoid unsafe intrusions into the electrical grid.
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