Citation
Waite, John, Donghui Yang, John Hall,
A Survivable System Analysis for the Communications Infrastructure used by the Electric Power Grid, 2003, Unpublished manuscript.
Abstract
The electric power industry depends upon the security and reliability of its power substations. These substations are generally planned with good physical security and redundancy in mind. These substations must communicate with outside sources and relay data from systems such as the SCADA. Remote access control to the substations is increasing and with that increase is an increase in the vulnerability to a cyber attack. A survivability systems analysis (SSA) can help to define the critical systems and defense strategies for those systems. For each critical system a series of attacks, the current state of defense and a recommendation for better defense is proposed in the areas of resistance, recognition, and recovery.
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@unpublished{Waite2003:SurvivableCommunications,
author = "John Waite and Donghui Yang and John Hall",
title = "A Survivable System Analysis for the Communications Infrastructure used by the Electric Power Grid",
notes = "Survivable Systems",
year = "2003",
url = "http://www.johnmhall.net/research/unpublished/SurvivableCommunications.html" }
