Securing the Smart Grid: Next Generation Power Grid Security

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 themDiscusses current security initiatives and how they fall short of what is neededFind out how hackers can use the new infrastructure against itself

1: Smart Grid: What is it? 2: Threats and Impacts: Consumers 3: Threats and Impacts: utility companies & Beyond 4: Federal Effort to Secure Smart Grids 5: State and Local Security Initiatives 6: Public and Private Companies  7: Attacking the Utility Companies 8: Securing the Utility Companies 9: Third-Party Services 10: Mobile Applications 11: Social Networking & The Smart Grid 12: Home Area Network: Smart Meters 13: Home Area Network: Smart Devices and Interfaces 14: What’s Next?