Applying a uniform security policy across electric sector devices is one way that ITI's Tim Yardley, along with co-PIs David Nicol, Bill Sanders and Klara Nahrstedt, have identified to help mitigate these attacks. Yardley and his team were recently awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant by the U.S. Department of Energy, with collaborators from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) and Ameren, called "Innovation for Increasing Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems." The grant will fund development of a framework, Secure Policy-Based Configuration Framework (PBCONF), which will support the secure configuration and remote access of energy devices from a variety of vendors.