Cybersecurity in the Power Generation Industry Guidebook - electronic book

This PDF guidebook features articles originally published in POWER magazine covering a range of cybersecurity issues in the power generation industry. It provides clear, practical answers to common questions and strategies to protect critical infrastructure.

Topics Include

• Grid Security Gets: Highlights the ongoing importance of physical security alongside cybersecurity, with examples such as the 2013 California substation attack.
• How to Use “Honeypots” to Overcome Cybersecurity Shortcomings: Strategies for detecting and mitigating cyber threats.
• Introduction to NERC CIP: Overview of Critical Infrastructure Protection standards.
• Identifying CIP Version 5 Assets in Generation: Determining which facilities and assets are subject to the latest standards.
• Federal Cybersecurity Framework Calls for Increased Vigilance: Ensuring compliance meets evolving cyber threats.
• EPRI and Luminant Collaboration: Developing best practices for cybersecurity in both nuclear and non-nuclear plants.
• NIST Cybersecurity Framework: Integrating standards into a coherent framework for risk management.
• Generation Cybersecurity: Controls and measures every generation plant should implement.
• Quantum Cryptography Promises Un-Hackable Industrial Communications: Future-proofing grid communications.
• AURORA Vulnerability: Understanding and mitigating a historically significant cyber threat.
• Guidance on Cybersecurity for the Electricity Sector: Addressing unique challenges of electric power systems.
• Ensuring the Cybersecurity of Plant Industrial Control Systems: Protecting ICSs from cyber attacks.
• Power Grid Cyber Security Strategies: Ten actionable steps for utilities and operators.
• Power Grid Cybersecurity: How to Achieve Results in an Uncertain Regulatory Environment: Managing risk and uncertainty in protecting the grid.