Cyber CEO's US Advisory Work Echoed Sales Pitch His Firm Uses
Dragos CEO says he wasn’t trying to help his company but promote cyber improvements that were ‘solution agnostic'
Power lines incinerate during a simulation of how cyberattacks might impact the grid.
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An executive’s involvement in drafting White House-backed cybersecurity guidelines for energy companies that could potentially benefit his firm rankled competitors and prompted an effort by the Biden administration to remedy the potential conflict, according to documents and emails reviewed by Bloomberg News and interviews with four people involved in the process.
Soon after President Joe Biden took office, the White House began developing a plan to harden the cyber defenses of the electric grid. Robert M. Lee, chief executive officer of the cybersecurity firm Dragos Inc., was brought in for advice.