Smart Grid Security

Gilbert (Gib) N. Sorebo is a chief cybersecurity Technologist and assistant vice president for SAIC where he assists government and private sector organizations in addressing cybersecurity risks and complying with legal and regulatory requirements. He has been working in the information technology industry for more than nineteen years in both the public and private sector. In addition to federal and state governments, Mr. Sorebo has done security consulting in the financial services, health care, and electricity sectors. He is currently responsible for coordinating cybersecurity activities in the energy sector companywide. He has been the co-lead of SAI C’s Smart Grid Security practice where he established the SAI C Smart Grid Security Solutions Center for product security testing and solution development and contributes to a variety of other smart grid security research efforts. Michael C. Echols is a cyber security consultant who specializes in the development and management of utilities’ cyber security programs. This includes the development of governance models, policy development, and compliance. Michael has worked in Energy and Utility markets developing and delivering transformational cyber security solutions for Critical Infrastructure systems. Michael is recognized for his expertise in cyber security compliance and posture analysis for industrial control systems and smart grid technologies. He has worked in the public sector as a cyber security officer for the U.S. government, where he has applied security requirements from both NIST and NERC to industrial control systems, in real world situations. He has led efforts to assess, secure and remediate risk to Generation, Transmission, Distribution, and Advanced Residential Metering Systems for the U.S. government and major U.S. energy providers.

What Is the Smart Grid, and Why Should We Care about Security? The Smart Grid Evolution: Smart Grid Standards, Laws, and Industry Guidance. Smart Metering: The First Security Challenge. Home Area Networking: Giving Consumers Control or Opening a Pandora’s Box? Distribution Automation: Moving from Legacy to Secure. Transmission Automation: Can Utilities Work Together Securely? Distributed Generation and Micro-Grids: Can Distributed Systems Work Together? Operations and Outsourcing. Plug-In Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage: Now the Fun Really Begins. What about the Consumer?: Securing Relationships between the Utilities and Their Customers. Identifying and Recovering the Grid from a Cyber-Disaster. Crystal Ball Time: Will We Have a Secure Grid and What Will It Take? Bibliography. Index.