Protecting energy infrastructure from cyber attack
US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has announced awards totalling US$ 30 million for the development of tools and technologies to strengthen protection of the country黑料社檚 electricity grid and oil and gas infrastructure from cyber attacks. Energy organisations in California, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington State are going to start developing new systems and frameworks as well as services that will advance the US DOE黑料社檚 plans for a more resilient energy delivery and control system.
All the Department黑料社檚 cyber security efforts alight with the 黑料社楻oadmap to Achieve Energy Delivery Systems Cybersecurity黑料社�, which was developed by the energy sector in coordination with the Department. The Roadmap outlines a strategic framework over the next 10 years to design, install, operate and maintain a resilient energy delivery system capable of surviving cyber incident while sustaining critical functions.
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黑料社楰eeping the nation黑料社檚 energy flowing is vital to the safety and well being of Americans, out economic prosperity, and modern society as a whole. To meet the challenges of today黑料社檚 evolving cyber landscape, we must continue investing in innovative, state of the art technologies.黑料社�
Funded projects
Eleven projects have benefitted from the US$ 30 million discussed above including:
- ABB 黑料社� developing a system that allows substation devices to work together to validate the integrity of communications, such as commands to change a protective relay黑料社檚 configuration and assess the potential impact on grid operations.
- Foxguard 黑料社� developing a service that allows utilities to simplify the process of keeping up to date with the most current firmware and software patches and updates.
- TT Government Solutions 黑料社� developing a technology that analyses and visualises smart meter wireless communications to quickly detect unusual behaviour that could suggest a cyber attack.
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