Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid

Author: Eric D. Knapp
Publisher: Newnes
ISBN: 012404638X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
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

Smart Grid Security

Author: Gilbert N. Sorebo
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 146651650X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
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.

Securing the Smart Grid

Author: Tony Flick
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1597495719
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
Securing the Smart Grid discusses the features of the smart grid, particularly its strengths and weaknesses, to better understand threats and attacks, and to prevent insecure deployments of smart grid technologies. A smart grid is a modernized electric grid that uses information and communications technology to be able to process information, such as the behaviors of suppliers and consumers. The book discusses different infrastructures in a smart grid, such as the automatic metering infrastructure (AMI). It also discusses the controls that consumers, device manufacturers, and utility companies can use to minimize the risk associated with the smart grid. It explains the smart grid components in detail so readers can understand how the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of these components can be secured or compromised. This book will be a valuable reference for readers who secure the networks of smart grid deployments, as well as consumers who use smart grid devices. - Details how old and new hacking techniques can be used against the grid and how to defend against them - Discusses current security initiatives and how they fall short of what is needed - Find out how hackers can use the new infrastructure against itself

Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications

Author: Ferrag, Mohamed Amine
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522518304
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 485

Book Description
Electrical energy usage is increasing every year due to population growth and new forms of consumption. As such, it is increasingly imperative to research methods of energy control and safe use. Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications is a pivotal reference source for the latest research on the development of smart grid technology and best practices of utilization. Featuring extensive coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such as threat detection, authentication, and intrusion detection, this book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, engineers and students seeking current research on ways in which to implement smart grid platforms all over the globe.

Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control Systems for Safety and Security

Author: Yastrebenetsky, Michael
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1466651342
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 470

Book Description
Accidents and natural disasters involving nuclear power plants such as Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and the recent meltdown at Fukushima are rare, but their effects are devastating enough to warrant increased vigilance in addressing safety concerns. Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control Systems for Safety and Security evaluates the risks inherent to nuclear power and methods of preventing accidents through computer control systems and other such emerging technologies. Students and scholars as well as operators and designers will find useful insight into the latest security technologies with the potential to make the future of nuclear energy clean, safe, and reliable.

Cyber Security of Industrial Control Systems in the Future Internet Environment

Author: Stojanovi?, Mirjana D.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 179982912X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 374

Book Description
In today’s modernized market, many fields are utilizing internet technologies in their everyday methods of operation. The industrial sector is no different as these technological solutions have provided several benefits including reduction of costs, scalability, and efficiency improvements. Despite this, cyber security remains a crucial risk factor in industrial control systems. The same public and corporate solutions do not apply to this specific district because these security issues are more complex and intensive. Research is needed that explores new risk assessment methods and security mechanisms that professionals can apply to their modern technological procedures. Cyber Security of Industrial Control Systems in the Future Internet Environment is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on current security risks in critical infrastructure schemes with the implementation of information and communication technologies. While highlighting topics such as intrusion detection systems, forensic challenges, and smart grids, this publication explores specific security solutions within industrial sectors that have begun applying internet technologies to their current methods of operation. This book is ideally designed for researchers, system engineers, managers, networkers, IT professionals, analysts, academicians, and students seeking a better understanding of the key issues within securing industrial control systems that utilize internet technologies.

Computer Security

Author: Sokratis K. Katsikas
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319728172
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Security of Industrial Control Systems and of Cyber-Physical Systems, CyberICPS 2017, and the First International Workshop on Security and Privacy Requirements Engineering, SECPRE 2017, held in Oslo, Norway, in September 2017, in conjunction with the 22nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2017. The CyberICPS Workshop received 32 submissions from which 10 full and 2 short papers were selected for presentation. They cover topics related to threats, vulnerabilities and risks that cyber-physical systems and industrial control systems face; cyber attacks that may be launched against such systems; and ways of detecting and responding to such attacks. From the SECPRE Workshop 5 full papers out of 14 submissions are included. The selected papers deal with aspects of security and privacy requirements assurance and evaluation; and security requirements elicitation and modelling.

Applied Cyber-Physical Systems

Author: Sang C. Suh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461473365
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Applied Cyber-Physical Systems presents the latest methods and technologies in the area of cyber-physical systems including medical and biological applications. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) integrate computing and communication capabilities by monitoring, and controlling the physical systems via embedded hardware and computers. This book brings together unique contributions from renowned experts on cyber-physical systems research and education with applications. It also addresses the major challenges in CPS, and then provides a resolution with various diverse applications as examples. Advanced-level students and researchers focused on computer science, engineering and biomedicine will find this to be a useful secondary text book or reference, as will professionals working in this field.

Sustainable Technology and Advanced Computing in Electrical Engineering

Author: Vasundhara Mahajan
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811943648
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1205

Book Description
The book includes peer-reviewed papers of the International Conference on Sustainable Technology and Advanced Computing in Electrical Engineering (ICSTACE 2021). The main focus of the book is electrical engineering. The conference aims to provide a global platform to the researchers for sharing and showcasing their discoveries/findings/innovations. The book focuses on the areas related to sustainable development and includes research works from academicians and industry experts. The book discusses new challenges and provides solutions at the interface of technology, information, complex systems, and future research directions.

A Systems Approach to Cyber Security

Author: A. Roychoudhury
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 1614997446
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
With our ever-increasing reliance on computer technology in every field of modern life, the need for continuously evolving and improving cyber security remains a constant imperative. This book presents the 3 keynote speeches and 10 papers delivered at the 2nd Singapore Cyber Security R&D Conference (SG-CRC 2017), held in Singapore, on 21-22 February 2017. SG-CRC 2017 focuses on the latest research into the techniques and methodologies of cyber security. The goal is to construct systems which are resistant to cyber-attack, enabling the construction of safe execution environments and improving the security of both hardware and software by means of mathematical tools and engineering approaches for the design, verification and monitoring of cyber-physical systems. Covering subjects which range from messaging in the public cloud and the use of scholarly digital libraries as a platform for malware distribution, to low-dimensional bigram analysis for mobile data fragment classification, this book will be of interest to all those whose business it is to improve cyber security.