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BEER-SHEVA, Israel, May 6, 2021 - A winning consortium led by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) the Israeli leader, and Arizona State University (ASU) the U.S. leader, along with several other tech partners, including Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GT), will receive up to $6 million under a U.S.-Israel Energy Center research funding grant for energy infrastructure cybersecurity.
The consortium s research project is entitled: Comprehensive Cybersecurity Technology for Critical Power Infrastructure AI Based Centralized Defense and Edge Resilience. Increasingly, both Israel and the U.S. face costly cyberattacks that can cause severe damage to critical energy infrastructure. This consortium will develop, integrate, and test technologies, and demonstrate high value cyberattack mitigation technologies on the energy infrastructure using data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.