Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I Communication architectures and models for smart grid
- Part II Physical data communications, access, detection, and estimation techniques for smart grid
- Part III Smart grid and wide-area networks
- Part IV Sensor and actuator networks for smart grid
- Part V Security in smart grid communications and networking
- 15 Cyber-attack impact analysis of smart grid
- 16 Jamming for manipulating the power market in smart grid
- 17 Power-system state-estimation security: attacks and protection schemes
- 18 A hierarchical security architecture for smart grid
- 19 Application-driven design for a secured smart grid
- Part VI Field trials and deployments
- Index
19 - Application-driven design for a secured smart grid
from Part V - Security in smart grid communications and networking
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I Communication architectures and models for smart grid
- Part II Physical data communications, access, detection, and estimation techniques for smart grid
- Part III Smart grid and wide-area networks
- Part IV Sensor and actuator networks for smart grid
- Part V Security in smart grid communications and networking
- 15 Cyber-attack impact analysis of smart grid
- 16 Jamming for manipulating the power market in smart grid
- 17 Power-system state-estimation security: attacks and protection schemes
- 18 A hierarchical security architecture for smart grid
- 19 Application-driven design for a secured smart grid
- Part VI Field trials and deployments
- Index
Summary
Introduction
As a core critical infrastructure, the national electric grid is at a crossroads, with modernization efforts driven by advanced cyber-system capabilities on the one hand and risks from cyber attack on the other. All stakeholders are concerned about these risks and view the need to incorporate resilience and adequate cyber security measures into the grid as crucial to all modernization efforts. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently released its policy statement [1] on smart grid technologies, which identified cyber security as one of two key priority areas.
As tasked by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is leading a major effort to develop a comprehensive framework for interoperability in smart grid. In their preliminary Roadmap for Interoperability, the development of a cyber security risk-management framework was identified as a major challenge. The ongoing roadmap to secure energy delivery systems [2] is another example of an important public/private dialogue that has identified milestones and goals for achieving resilience, such as designing, installing, operating, and maintaining control systems by 2015 that can survive an intentional cyber attack without loss of critical function. In addition, over $9 billion has been committed by the electric sector and the Department of Energy as part of ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) recovery investment efforts on modernization of the grid, with cyber security being an important focus. This investment offers opportunities and challenges in realizing a resilient electric grid for the future.
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- Smart Grid Communications and Networking , pp. 439 - 462Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012