Vicki Contavespi

Washington Correspondent, SecurityInformed.com

Vicki Contavespi is SourceSecurity.com US Edition's Washington Correspondent. She writes about legislative and regulatory issues, and the intersection of the security marketplace with the U.S. federal government.Founder of MightyScribe, Inc., a resource for national and trade media since 2006, Vicki logged in a dozen years as a reporter and writer at Forbes (where she was nominated for the Loeb Award, business journalism's highest honor). The experience at Forbes taught her that good reporting doesn’t come out of a vacuum. Knowledgeable sources with major-league expertise in their field are essential to bring a story to life.

Specialisation:

Government security

Articles by Vicki Contavespi

ISC West’s Mt. Everest climber witnesses deadly earthquake and avalanche

A demonstration of the home automation capabilities of Z-Wave wireless transmission – controlling a coffee maker from the Mt. Everest base camp – came off without a hitch at ISC West. A fe...

Electric grid security: A closer look at CIP-014-1 standard

The FERC standard CIP-014-1 became effective, according to the Federal Register, on January 26, 2015 The electric power industry works with several federal agencies, including the F...

Electric grid security: Regulations - A poor substitute

Compliance with regulatory requirements are not enough to protect the US electric grid Many companies use compliance and best practices to assist in their fight to protect the...

Cybersecurity - Hackers target SCADA embedded systems

Forty-one percent of cyber incidents involved the energy sector The Bipartisan Policy Center, the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, which is part of the U.S....

US electric grid: Impact of catastrophic events

The number-one cause of most power outages in the U.S. is bad weather What does the industry consider to be its most severe threats the U.S. electric grid? There is no shortage of n...

White House incident draws attention to threats from drones

Drone is a toy with a bright future—until it causes a catastrophe Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, are today’s gizmo du jour. A recent Bloomberg article reported tha...

US electric grid: Exposing complexities that make it vulnerable

The smarter the grid becomes, the more risks it will encounter Hollywood collided with couch-dwelling gamers this Christmas because of the hack on Sony’s computer system, alle...

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