This book offers a systematic explanation of cybersecurity protection of electricity supply facilities, including discussion of related costs, relevant standards, and recent solutions. The author explains the current state of cybersecurity in the electricity market, and cybersecurity standards that apply in that sector. He then offers a systematic approach to cybersecurity management, including new methods of cybersecurity assessment, cost evaluation and comprehensive defence. This monograph is suitable for practitioners, professionals, and researchers engaged in critical infrastructure protection.
This book offers a systematic explanation of cybersecurity protection of electricity supply facilities, including discussion of related costs, relevant standards, and recent solutions. The author explains the current state of cybersecurity in the electricity market, and cybersecurity standards that apply in that sector. He then offers a systematic approach to cybersecurity management, including new methods of cybersecurity assessment, cost evaluation and comprehensive defence. This monograph is suitable for practitioners, professionals, and researchers engaged in critical infrastructure protection.
In December 2015, Russian state hackers successfully compromised the Ukraine's electric grid, shutting down multiple distribution centers and leaving more than 200,000 residents without power for their lights and heaters. That attack was premeditated and well-choreographed, with groundwork that pre-dated the full attack by many months. It was sophisticated and synchronized, taking down backup power supplies and jamming phone lines to keep operators unaware of the extent of damages. To date, it stands as the only recognized cyberattack to successfully take down a power grid. Ensuring the reliable supply of electricity is absolutely vital to the United States' national security. Across the country, electricity enables telecommunications, financial transactions, the transport and delivery of energy, and food, in addition to many other things. Electricity powers the infrastructure that delivers our drinking water. It enables businesses and industry to make and provide the goods and services of our modern society, and powers our hospitals and our households. Ensuring reliability is the central function of electricity grid operations, and a complex system has developed over time to ensure that the lights stay on. The integration into the system of new technologies, especially digital technologies, that are essential for keeping up with the nation's energy needs adds new vulnerabilities. What lessons can be learned from the attack on Ukraine's electric grid to make the U.S. electric grid more secure and utility workers more vigilant of cybersecurity threats? If Russia hacked the election, what's to stop them from hacking the electricity grid?
The electricity sector's efforts to respond to cybersecurity threats : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, February 1, 2017.
The electricity sector's efforts to respond to cybersecurity threats : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, February 1, 2017.
The Smart Grid has the potential to revolutionize electricity delivery systems, and the security of its infrastructure is a vital concern not only for cyber-security practitioners, engineers, policy makers, and utility executives, but also for the media and consumers. Smart Grid Security: An End-to-End View of Security in the New Electrical Grid explores the important techniques, challenges, and forces that will shape how we achieve a secure twenty-first century electric grid. Includes a Foreword by Michael Assante, President and CEO, National Board of Information Security Examiners Following an overview of the components of the Smart Grid, the book delves into the evolution of security standards and regulations and examines ways in which the Smart Grid might be regulated. The authors discuss the technical details about how metering technology is being implemented and the likely threats and vulnerabilities that utilities will face. They address the home area network (HAN) and examine distribution and transmission—the foundation for the delivery of electricity, along with distributed generation, micro-grids, and operations. The book explores future concepts—such as energy storage and the use of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs)—in addition to the concomitant risk for fraud and manipulation with stored energy. Consumer-related issues are discussed as they pertain to emerging ways of receiving and generating energy. The book examines dysfunctions ranging from inadvertent outages to cyber-attack and presents recommendations on how to respond to these incidents. It concludes with speculation of future cyber-security challenges and discusses new ways that the grid can be defended, such as better key management and protection. Written in a style rigorous enough for the practitioner yet accessible to a broad audience, this comprehensive volume covers a topic that is becoming more critical to industry and consumers everywhere.
Tackling the cyber risks in the energy sector is just not critical for energy security but also is a vital component for a strong nation and economy as identified by the recent World Energy Committee report. The statement also focuses that there has been a steady growth in the total count of successful cyber-attacks over the recent years to this energy sector. Cybersecurity in the energy sector does matters, and since the energy business is primarily preceded by private corporations, their systems are under major targets by both crooks and hostile agencies. Cybersecurity is mostly considered as a negligible item on the board meeting agenda unless and until something comes wrong, by which time it's too delayed. Most big corporations now have Cybersecurity cell with cybersecurity officers but due to the absence of technical knowledge and corresponding details of this cyber world at the board level, their work is confined inside a black box. Energy companies are a definitive target since they deliver important product and services. The dangers are in height, but the risk is doubtful to be broadly valued until a sizable attack takes place. The energy and the utility sector constitute a crucial part of critical national infrastructure, that produces it an expensive target for state or non-state performers in search of gaining military and political leaders or causing chaos and disruption. Being competent to remotely disorder a national electricity grid would have made a shocking effect. Hence, protecting the grid from cyber-attack is an essential component of guaranteeing energy security.
This book presents the contributions from a workshop entitled "Electricity security in the cyber age: Managing the increasing dependence of the electricity infrastructure on ICT," which was organized in the Netherlands in May 2009.
