Ty Brown on DOE’s Use of Automation to Counter Cyberthreats

, director of cybersecurity operations at the Department of Energy, said DOE is advancing automation and intelligence-sharing to detect and prevent threats, Federal News Network reported Monday. “We are under attack right now. We’re being scanned, probed every second.

So what we have to do is leverage a fair amount of automation to get that volume out of the way,” said Brown. “Have we seen this before? And that goes back to the documentation and sharing of intelligence.” The cyber operations chief pointed to information-sharing practices within the department to help prevent cyberattacks.



“We try to handle these things at the lowest level possible, but we’re always making sure that the proper parties are informed and that we’re sharing what we’ve learned from these incidents. It’s not a matter of just flipping a switch to turn off the bad thing,” he noted. Brown also discussed how DOE implements artificial intelligence in the cybersecurity area.

“AI is the new guy, and like anybody that’s new to the office, you’re going to eventually give it some work and you’re going to keep a very weather eye on it and make sure that it’s performing as expected,” he said. “I don’t see it being cut loose anytime soon, but it’s very glad to have that second opinion.”.