A Vote for Securing the “Social Network of Devices” – a Safer Smart Grid

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher GE’s Ecomagination Challenge is a $200 million call to action for businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators, and students to share their best ideas and come together to take on one of the world’s toughest challenges – building the next-generation power grid to meet the needs of the 21st century. SecureRF has submitted [...]

Smart Grid Security Warnings

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher A few weeks ago I posted a blog entry titled “Lack Of Security In Smart-Meter Rollouts.”  This topic continues to get an increasing amount of press, including these two articles: “Smart” Power Grids a Prime Target in Cyber Warfare in Security Week. http://www.securityweek.com/smart-power-grids-prime-target-cyber-warfare Energy Insecurities: The Downside of Being Too [...]

Lack of Security in Smart-Meter Rollouts

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Smart Grid security covers a wide spectrum of technologies from fences and video cameras at the power generation facilities and substations to securing the data in the embedded systems and metering devices used to monitor and adjust a homeowner’s usage. These Smart Meter security issues have been in the news a lot recently. Elinor [...]

Black Hat 2009: Security Gaps in Embedded Systems and the Smart Grid, but not RFID

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher A co-worker sent me an article called Buggy ‘smart meters’ open door to power-grid botnet: Grid-burrowing worm only the beginning (Thanks, Henry). “For an embedded platform, they’re kind of scary,” said Mike Davis, a senior security consultant for IOActive about the buggy software running on meters for the Smart Grid.  [...]