IEEE Power and Energy Society
Chicago Chapter 2010-2011
Can Innovation Improve Cyber-Security of the Smart Grid?
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Carl A. Gunter
University of Illinois
About the Topic
With its heavy commitment to digital networking and computer control,
there are significant risks for the cyber-security of the Smart Grid.
Much can be achieved by simply learning lessons from cyber-security in
other sectors and applying these lessons to the Smart Grid.
Education, awareness, best practices, and so on can make a major
difference and almost any effort will fail without these things.
However, is innovation also needed to provide proper security for the
Smart Grid? That is, do we need to invent new security technologies
to achieve the necessary levels of protection? This talk with
consider drivers for innovation in cyber-security for the Smart Grid
and look at a few research efforts that have been carried out in
Illinois Security Lab as part of the Center on Trustworthy
Cyber-Infrastructure for Power (TCIP) at the University of Illinois.
These include work on remote attestation for power meters, multi-cast
security for substation communications, using white space
communications for rural meters, verification techniques for direct
controls, and strategies for maintaining security when integrating
headend applications.
About the Speaker
Carl A. Gunter is a professor in the Computer Science Department of
the University of Illinois, director of Illinois Security Lab, the
Center for Health Information Privacy and Security, and the HHS
Strategic Healthcare IT Advanced Research Projects on Security
(SHARPS). He has made research contributions in the semantics of
programming languages, formal analysis of networks and security, and
privacy. His recent work concerns security and privacy issues for the
power grid and healthcare information technology. He is the author of
more than 100 scientific research publications and patents and a
textbook on semantics of programming languages published by MIT Press.
He is a founder of Probaris Technologies, a company that provides
identity management technologies, and has served as a consultant to
research labs and companies and as an expert witness on legal cases
concerning fraud, contract, copyright, and patent infringement.
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