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
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments (Tony Flick)
- Acknowledgments (Justin Morehouse)
- About the Authors
- About the Technical Editor
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Smart Grid
- Chapter 2: Threats and Impacts
- Chapter 3: Threats and Impacts
- Chapter 4: Federal Effort to Secure Smart Grids
- Chapter 5: State and Local Security Initiatives
- Chapter 6: Public and Private Companies
- Chapter 7: Attacking the Utility Companies
- Chapter 8: Securing the Utility Companies
- Chapter 9: Third-Party Services
- Chapter 10: Mobile Applications and Devices
- Chapter 11: Social Networking and the Smart Grid
- Chapter 12: Attacking Smart Meters
- Chapter 13: Attacking Smart Devices
- Chapter 14: What's Next?
- Index
Product information
- Title: Securing the Smart Grid
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2010
- Publisher(s): Syngress
- ISBN: 9781597495714
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