How Vulnerable is the Smart Grid? | Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis: "A big topic today is the so-called Smart Grid. This is our power system on steroids, or at least, on millions of small, very capable monitoring computers that will make our power usage more efficient and more, well…smart.
Briefly, the Smart Grid will streamline our power use and decentralize power production, providing resiliency against outages and infrastructure attacks. Two-way digital connections between power providers and consumer homes will help save energy and money. The current grid struggles to keep up with our ever-increasing power needs, and its replacement by the government is a multi-billion dollar initiative already underway.
Most people are now aware (or are getting more so) that all this wonderful technology that makes us efficient, effective and connected also makes us vulnerable to those who want to do us harm. This could be cyber vandals, cheap crooks and scam artists, highly organized criminal enterprises, terrorists, or enemy nations. Let’s put it simply: we have to develop and deploy a Smart Grid. We need it both economically and ecologically. There is no going back to the old isolated power system developed over the span of the Twentieth Century. We are moving forward."
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