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‘Cybersecurity is imperative for CUC’
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Posted on Mar 18 2020
Cybersecurity is critical and imperative for the Commonwealth Utilities Corp., according to CUC executive director Gary P. Camacho.
Cyberattack is obviously huge and that CUC has two staff working on program for cyber security, said Camacho in response to Rep. Luis John DLG. Castro’s (R-Saipan) inquiry during a recent meeting with members of the House Public Utilities, Transportation and Communications.
Camacho said right now they are trying to get a request for proposals for a contractor to come in and build CUC’s five-year plan for budget purposes that will include cyber security.
Camacho said recently that CUC is integrating so many technologies into their system.
He noted, among other things, that they are doing Advanced Metering Infrastructures (AMI) on electric metering and in fact, Tinian is almost completely AMI right now.
Camacho said they are putting up a program together where they are going to outsource services—the Information Technology aspect of the corporation.
Camacho said this will basically start to give them a five-year plan to 10-year plan on platforms to build.
“Because we don’t want to build something today which is far too big to what is we have. So we want to incorporate to our infrastructure growth,” he said.
Camacho said power transmission and distribution now are almost completely GIS (geographic information system).
“I mean we can literally open up layers and layer, and layers of our system and our performance and all of that again is IT. A lot of these is now exceeding our IT capabilities,” he said.
