Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid

Introduction

Buzzword bingo

• Book overview and key learning points

• Book audience

• Diagrams and figures

• The Smart Grid

• What’s in the book

• What’s NOT in the book

Book overview and key learning points

Cyber security is big business today. Smart Grid is big business today. Therefore let’s put the two together and write a book? Well, surely there will be some individuals that may make that assumption as to the motivation behind the publication of this book. The real motivation behind the development of this book is because this is a very real issue, and the failure to address the cyber security risk within the Grid may have serious repercussions for every single one of us.

Our intention of course is not to use FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, ...