Long-time readers of the SGSB might have wondered if they'd ever see another post. Me too. After producing an average of 1+ posts per week since its inception 5 years ago, I cut way back after le...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/11/energy-security-postscript-and-next.html
Here's the facts, just the facts: Legendary cyber training institute SANS has joined forces with industry leaders to equip security professionals and control system engineers with the cybersecu...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/get-schooled-on-ics-sec-by-sans-at-serc.html
Though I've been approaching this issue from a sector-specific perspective for years , lots of what's been in the news lately (and I mean lately) is intended for all technology-enabled sector...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/calls-for-enhanced-enterprise-security.html
NARUC has been issuing cybersecurity guidance to the 50 US public utility commissions (PUCs) since 2010. And NASEO 's been guiding other state government orgs. California's PUC has been very a...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/04/new-england-and-connecticut-in.html
You know the saying, if you want a different result, best not to keep doing the same thing. In this case, the result was the massive data loss breach involving loss of the records of 40 milli...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/03/security-governance-ripples-from-target.html
I've got a short story to recommend to you. It's cerebral without being overly literary. It's got action, though no cyber-physical grid attacks. There's no shooting. No lives lost. No outages. Bu...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-playful-eerie-and-early-visualization.html
Since I went solo there's been less time for blogging but I hope to catch up a little with this mega post on the just-concluded, 9th annual SANS ICS Security Summit which took place in the Conte...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-social-summary-of-sans-ics-security.html
Or so says corporate underwriter and veteran cyber insurance provider, Lloyds of London, in a BBC article last week: > Any company that applies for cover has to let experts employ...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/03/energy-firms-not-ready-for-cyber.html
I remember once thinking, naively perhaps, that most utility CEOs must have come up through the ranks, like generals in the military, with hands-on operational engineering experience garnerin...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/02/where-do-todays-electric-utility-ceos.html
Hat tip to Tim Dierking of Aclara for spotting and forwarding this January 2014 World Economic Forum / McKinsey report: "Risk and Responsibility in a Hyper-connected World." Tim pointed to a co...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/02/thoughts-on-risk-and-responsibility-in.html
There's been a ton of work accomplished since DOE handed the C2M2 flame to former FERCer Jason Christopher. This program has now been leveraged at hundreds of enterprises and now gives you thre...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/02/does-c2m2-is-growing-up-fast.html
Valentines Day update - Two more good links have surfaced for you since I wrote the original post a few days ago: > A PBS Interview > > with Jon Wellinghof and Mark Weatherford > ...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/02/please-remain-calm-my-metcalf.html
Cross-posted from the new Bochman Advisors' Blog. What a wonderful thing a Distributech is. Held alternatively in San Diego and San Antonio, the vibrant but relatively conservative host comm...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/02/security-and-other-notes-from-cold.html
Dear Reader, You may have noticed the number of posts has tapered off lately on the Smart Grid Security Blog. I've got to tell you that it's not from lack of interest or diminished activity i...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/01/announcing-blogging-slowdown-as-new.html
There's not much time left, but here's an exciting conference for if you're not going to Distributech in San Antonio, but still want to visit a historic city with picturesque waterways. Loc...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/01/conference-alert-smartsec-europe-2014.html
With apologies to Olivia Newton John, you may or may not be aware that some bad actors have been helping raise awareness about physical threats to electric infrastructure lately. You might say...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/01/sans-gets-cyber-physical-with-ics.html
Analyst and author Peter Singer of the Brookings Institute has a new book out intended for everyman. And everywoman. To include particularly those types who consider themselves non technical, or ...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/01/singer-brookings-on-security.html
Before you click through on the link provided below, I have to tell you that this write-up is not just about the NIST Critical Infrastructure Security Framework (CSF), but it's also a review of t...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2013/12/whitsitt-on-whats-up-with-nist-csf.html
We used to be very concerned about traveling too close to the edge of the world, remember? Then some smart math and science guys figured out, surprisingly, Earth has no edge, so we were fre...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2013/12/security-at-edge-of-grid.html
Ed Beroset is the Director of Technology and Standards at one of the main smart meter making companies, Elster, and I've had the good fortune of meeting him on several occasions when both had spe...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2013/12/beroset-on-ami-and-smart-meter-security.html
Having posted innumerable times on the many benefits the energy and other critical infrastructure sectors would achieve if they would identify a few security metrics and start measuring them, i...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-means-to-measured-approach-to.html
SANS Securing the Human - ICS Attacker The excellent security-mined people at the SANS Institute have produced an 8 minute video that walks you through a control systems attack. The money ...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2013/11/ics-attack-video-and-aegis-to-rescue.html
First off, thanks to friend and colleague Ernie Hayden for writing a microgrid security post following his mini-immersion in the topic last week. You can read his write-up HERE . In particula...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2013/11/sandia-and-hayden-on-cybersecurity.html
Earlier this year, the US Air Force's Robert M. Lee brought us SCADA and Me , an intro level graphic novelette optimized for very young children and certain managers. Now comes Haley Wauson o...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2013/11/scada-primers-now-for-grades-1-8.html
So said the President and COO of AEP subsidiary Southwestern Electric Power Company, of scenario she and her people faced during NERC's second GridEx exercise. Sounds like NERC CEO Gerry Ca...
http://smartgridsecurity.blogspot.com/2013/11/grid-attack-simulation-just-completed.html