Securing the Smart Grid

Introduction

Information in This Chapter

• Book Overview and Key Learning Points

• Book Audience

• How This Book Is Organized

• Conclusion

Book Overview and Key Learning Points

This book provides you 14 chapters of content exploring the strengths and weaknesses of the smart grid. By examining components of the smart grid in detail, you will obtain a strong understanding of how the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of these components can be both compromised and secured.

Discussing both the smart grid's strengths and weaknesses will help you understand threats and attacks, and hopefully prevent insecure deployments of smart grid technologies. In this book, you will also learn controls that will allow consumers, device manufacturers, ...