The Smart Grid allows two-way communication between you and the power grid.
You can feed power back to the Grid, the Grid can tell you how much power you’re using throughout the day, and — if you want — it can control your appliances for you.
And that’s just way too tempting for hackers, thieves and other criminals.
Annabelle Lee doesn’t sleep much.
Lee is the Senior Cybersecurity Strategist in the Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory at NIST.
It is her mission to make sure the Smart Grid is secure.
She runs a task group of upwards of 200 people — all volunteers — from the public sector, academia, and private industry. She says there’s a lot to do, but they’re more ahead of the curve than you might think.
via Federal News Radio 1500 AM: Scientists Take an All-Hazards Approach to Smart Grid Security.
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