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    Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid: Implementing Security Controls into the Modern Power Infrastructure
    Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid: Implementing Security Controls into the Modern Power Infrastructure
    Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid: Implementing Security Controls into the Modern Power Infrastructure
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    Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid: Implementing Security Controls into the Modern Power Infrastructure

    By Eric D. Knapp and Raj Samani

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    Many people think of the Smart Grid as a power distribution group built on advanced smart metering—but that’s just one aspect of a much larger and more complex system. The "Smart Grid" requires new technologies throughout energy generation, transmission and distribution, and even the homes and businesses being served by the grid. This also represents new information paths between these new systems and services, all of which represents risk, requiring a more thorough approach to where and how cyber security controls are implemented.

    This insight provides a detailed architecture of the entire Smart Grid, with recommended cyber security measures for everything from the supply chain to the consumer.

    • Discover the potential of the Smart Grid
    • Learn in depth about its systems
    • See its vulnerabilities and how best to protect it
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateFeb 26, 2013
    ISBN9780124046382
    Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid: Implementing Security Controls into the Modern Power Infrastructure
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    Eric D. Knapp

    Eric Knapp is a globally recognized expert in industrial control systems cyber security and continues to drive the adoption of new security technology to promote safer and more reliable automation infrastructures. He first specialized in ICS cyber security while at Nitrosecurity, where he focused on threats against these environments. He was later responsible for the development and implementation of end-to-end ICS cyber security solutions for McAfee in his role as Global Director for Critical Infrastructure Markets. He is currently Director of Strategic Alliances for Wurldtech Security Technologies, where he continues to promote the advancement of embedded security technology to better protect SCADA, ICS and other connected, real-time devices. In addition to his work in information security, he is an award-winning author of fiction. He studied at the University of New Hampshire and the University of London.

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      Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid - Eric D. Knapp

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      Introduction

      Buzzword bingo

      • Book overview and key learning points

      • Book audience

      • Diagrams and figures

      • The Smart Grid

      • What’s in the book

      • What’s NOT in the book

      Book overview and key learning points

      Cyber security is big business today. Smart Grid is big business today. Therefore let’s put the two together and write a book? Well, surely there will be some individuals that may make that assumption as to the motivation behind the publication of this book. The real motivation behind the development of this book is because this is a very real issue, and the failure to address the cyber security risk within the Grid may have serious repercussions for every single one of us.

      Our intention of course is not to use FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) as the business case for implementing cyber security measures to protect the Grid. However, there are potentially some very alarming ramifications should such measures fail to be implemented. This was highlighted with recent reports of stranded passengers on trains, traffic lights no longer working, and electric crematoriums shutting down with half-burnt bodies–only a small subset of the implications following recent power outages experienced at the end of July 2012 for almost 700 million Indian citizens.¹ This is of course refers to one of the world’s worst power blackouts, which affected 20 of the 28 Indian states. Almost three weeks after the failure of three of country’s five electricity grids, the government provided a report to investigate the cause of the failure.

      Included in the report was a section that focused on cyber security, which stated that Grid disturbance could not have been caused by a cyber attack. It does however acknowledge that the Grid could be impacted by cyber attacks in the future. The recognition of such an impact being caused by a cyber attack was also discussed in the United States, where at the same time the U.S. Cybersecurity Act was being debated:

      "All one needs to do is look at what is going on in India today. There are no cyber problems there that I am aware of, but one-half of the country of India is without electricity today²" Senator Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, said.

      All of which leads us to the evolution to the modern grid, a world in which devices that are owned by end customers, Grid operators, and a multitude of other third parties are interconnected. Such devices have the potential of impacting the integrity and availability of the broader Grid unless appropriate controls are in place. Equally, the grid will process an unprecedented wealth of personal data, and so when we consider the potential security considerations of the Smart Grid, we must not lose sight of the privacy risks. To be clear, this is not an either or discussion. In other words, it is not a question of security or privacy, but the development of a Grid that considers both the security and privacy issues and implements controls to mitigate any risks.

      Before the Smart Grid becomes ubiquitous, we have an opportunity to address these concerns by building controls into the design of such implementations. Unlike the world of cloud computing that is inundated with a plethora of standards resulting in confusion among customers and providers, operators have the opportunity to come out of recent disasters and provide confidence to their customers in their ability to provide a safe and secure service.

      Book audience

      As with the previous book, Industrial Network Security: Securing Critical Infrastructure Networks for Smart Grid, SCADA, and Other Industrial Control Systems, by one of this book’s authors, the goal here is to educate on concepts with just the right level of detail—enough to satisfy the more technical reader while keeping things simple enough to ensure that the important general concepts and ideas are not lost to those who are new to cyber security, the Grid, or

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