Foreword by Robert P. Lockhart
“Utility cyber security is in a state of near chaos.”
Those words, published in November 2011, earned me 15 min of fame that I would rather not have had. Picked up by news agencies worldwide, translated into several languages, and regularly misquoted as, “Utilities are in a state of chaos”—those 10 words were somehow far more alarming in Google results than they had looked on my laptop. But they were accurate.
If anything, the situation has deteriorated since then. Experts tell me during interviews that they see little innovation in cyber security. One vendor, perhaps in a moment of confession, said, “At every Smart Grid security conference for the past three years, I have seen the same vendors giving the same ...
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