Smart Grid Security

Chapter 8

Secure Development Life Cycle

Zhendong Ma^*

Friederich Kupzog^*

Paul Murdock^†*    Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria^†    Landis+Gyr, Switzerland

Abstract

A sound security architecture and the implementing technologies that have been discussed in previous chapters address only part of the challenge. To ensure security in Smart Grid, from development via roll-out to operation, proven development processes and management are needed to minimize or eliminate security vulnerabilities that are introduced in the development lifecycle. As a system of systems, the Smart Grid consists of software components that have varied security and assurance levels, and diverse origins and development processes. Building security into Smart Grid ...