Never will one mistake the complexities of the Smart Grid, and of undertaking the improvement of its protections, for a straightforward task in security and engineering. It presents an Augean stable of issues, and NIST has waded in with a legion of contributors, first to make sense of it all and then to start handing out shovels.
In the first draft of their analysis, announced during the recent GridWeek conference, Annabelle Lee and team have created a dense, but readable tome, numbering some 236 pages at present, entitled Smart Grid Cyber Security Strategy and Requirements. It serves as an adjunct to the more general draft of NIST’s Smart Grid guidance on interoperability (links below). For those interested in the higher level issues of focus and risk, I did a bit of data reduction and reached some pretty interesting, if unintended (and definitely scientifically questionable) conclusions.
via Smart Grid: What’s on First? New Insights in NIST’s First Draft.
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- Download – NIST – Cyber Security May 20th results
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- The Smart Grid Security Blog: Smart Grid: Greener but no Greenfield
