Accenture, Dragos and SANS invest $10 million in free utility cybersecurity. Newsroom brief The Community Cyber Resilience Foundation will support up to 500 smaller U.S. utilities with cybersecurity tools, deployment assistance and staff training at no cost. Verified against source material Edited by SendTech Times Cloud & Infrastructure Desk Source: therecord.media Image source: Quintin Soloviev / Wikimedia Commons, via The Record A $10 million investment by Accenture, Dragos and the SANS Institute will fund free cybersecurity support for up to 500 under-resourced U.S. utilities, according to The Record. Their new Community Cyber Resilience Foundation combines security tools with help deploying them and training the employees who will use them. The three organizations announced the foundation on Tuesday. Water, wastewater, electric and natural gas utilities in the United States qualify if their annual revenue is below $100 million. The companies put the share of utilities meeting that revenue threshold at 97%. The initial phase covers 500 utilities, with expansion dependent on the program's success. Participants will not pay for the support. The package includes software, hardware, deployment services and training focused on operational technology. Dragos will supply tools that identify devices connected to a utility's network and help participants address vulnerabilities. Accenture will then help deploy and configure those tools, with continuing support as utilities incorporate them into day-to-day operations. SANS will provide employee training, while members will be able to exchange operating experience and security practices with one another. SANS Institute CEO James Lyne linked that training to utilities' ability to use the technology. His emphasis was on giving the staff responsible for water, electricity, gas and wastewater systems the skills to operate their security tools, rather than supplying technology alone. The program addresses a combination of funding, staffing and technical constraints. Cyber defenders have long warned that most U.S. utilities cannot afford the tools needed to counter ransomware groups, state-backed attackers and other criminals. Many also lack the personnel and technical capacity to integrate security products, leaving pumps, valves, substations and distribution networks exposed. More than 100 water utilities across the country have suffered breaches. Government agencies continue to warn about Chinese and Russian attacks on energy utilities, telecommunications and other sectors. Dragos CEO Robert Lee identified both criminals and nation-states as threats to the operational systems that deliver essential services. July's water-utility attacks also prompted a response from the National Rural Water Association. Its separate program brought together five providers of managed detection and response services. Sentinel Technologies and L1 Secure joined Legato Security, Defendify and Rapid7 in an agreement to pool threat information and details of vulnerability patches. Federal efforts to strengthen utility cybersecurity have stalled, leaving states to develop their own protection frameworks for water, power and telecommunications. The foundation itself has no federal or state government involvement. Alongside the three founding organizations, Elastic will provide technical support to help the program scale. Dragos has indicated that additional companies have expressed interest in joining. Participating utilities face no time limit on their access to the program.

Stream Realty Partners negotiates 63,409-square-foot office lease in Lisle. October 7, 2026 Stream Realty Partners represented Sentinel Technologies in a 63,409-square-foot full-building lease at Corporetum Office Campus X at 410 Warrenville Road in Lisle, Illinois. Sentinel will occupy the entire four-story building for its headquarters, housing its office, research and development, and technology lab functions under one roof. The company is expected to relocate in the first quarter of 2027 from its current headquarters in Downers Grove, approximately one mile away. The move marks Sentinel's first headquarters relocation in more than 30 years. Stream Managing Directors Jordan Decker and Brian Duffy represented Sentinel in the transaction. David Florent and Brent Jacob of Colliers represented the landlord, Napleton Automotive Group. Located in Chicago's East/West Corridor along Interstate 88, Corporetum Office Campus X provides prominent visibility and signage opportunities. As part of the new lease, the building will undergo significant capital improvements to support Sentinel's operations and long-term occupancy.