The New York Retail Choice Coalition and Supporting ESCOs filed a list of questions concerning utility cybersecurity in advance of an August 1 technical conference on Data Security Agreement (DSA) the utilities are seeking ESCOs to sign

Among the questions is the following: "Isn’t it sufficient for non-secure/encrypted e-mails received from a customer/potential customer or from some other third party (like the PSC) containing sensitive/potentially confidential information such as a customer utility account number to be considered 'secure' if an ESCO’s employee happens to read such e-mail on his/her phone that is password protected? ConEd representatives mentioned some new language in the DSA that would prohibit receipt/reading of such e-mails containing such sensitive information on a mobile device such as a phone or laptop if is not 'encrypted', but is that simply not impractical considering that many ESCO customers and even the PSC currently do not have e-mail encryption capabilities?"

The full list of questions is here

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