SECURITY
Panel to gauge grid hacking defenses
House lawmakers are set to review strategies to protect the U.S. power grid from hackers during a hearing Friday.
Blake Sobczak
Energywire deputy editor
Blake is the deputy editor for Energywire and author of E&E News' weekly Cybersecurity Update. Since joining E&E in 2013, he has written about crude-by-rail safety risks and investigated major cyberattacks on oil, gas and electricity companies worldwide. Blake graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University with a double major in journalism and Arabic and has previously reported for the Associated Press
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