Draft2:Liberty Eclipse
The Liberty Eclipse Program is a public and private sector partnership that promotes energy sector preparedness and resilience for energy emergencies stemming from a cyberattack.
DOE's role
The partnership is lead by the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response.
Background
Preparedness and response plans must be put into practice to know if they truly work. Federal agencies use exercises like Liberty Eclipse to prepare for potentially disruptive events like natural disasters and cybersecurity incidents.
Across the board, these exercises serve two major purposes. First, they help to validate existing plans, policies, procedures, and capabilities. Testing how different organizations and agencies at all levels of government and in the nonprofit or private sectors will collaborate in response to an emergency verifies that their plans will be effective when a real-world situation arises. Second, these exercises help participants identify resource requirements, capacity constraints, and potential areas for improvement.
Investing time and resources up front ensures a smoother, more streamlined, and effective incident response. If energy systems go down or there are issues affecting the grid—such as damage from hurricanes or wildfires—customers and communities depend on utilities for an active response and swift resolution, as well as steady and sustained communication. Practicing the procedures in place as an organization to meet these needs is crucial to a successful response, and that is where preparedness exercises like Liberty Eclipse and the leveraging of a testbed environment shine.
Stakeholders
The Exercise Planning Team includes
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
- University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Events
Yearly Full-Scale Exercise (FSE) challenge utility teams from across the U.S. to partner together in practicing incident response in real-time by maintaining and defending an at-scale, high-fidelity cyber and physical power systems range.
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