The Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Richland, Wash., has a six-person cyber threat response in place since 2023 charged with searching for signs of trouble across more than 10,000 connected devices at the federal complex, DOE said last week.
Hanford’s Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) team, formed by Hanford’s Leidos-led landlord contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions. seeks to take a proactive approach through a new “threat hunting program,” DOE said in a Feb. 3 press release.
The team seeks to comb through “system logs, analyzing anomalies, and validating findings against threat intelligence,” in an attempt to spot potential threats and “strengthen defenses against future attempts,” according to the DOE Office of Environmental Management news release.
“No network can be completely secure,” said Joe Garry, security operations and engineering manager with the contractor, said in the release. “But the more difficult we make it for attackers, the more likely they’ll give up and look elsewhere.”