1.7 Cybersecurity of Power Facilities: Past, Present, and Future
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development programs and other activities aimed at improvement of EPS immunity
and its ability to rapid recovery after accidents.
Researches in the sphere of EPS cybersecurity are carried out mainly in ten
National Laboratories, including Idaho, Sandia, and Pacific Northwest National laboratories. Upon initiative of Sandia National Laboratory, there was founded cyberengineering research institute cooperating closely with producers of equipment for electric power systems. Over 20 universities in the USA appear to be partners of Department of Energy Department of Homeland Security participates in financing of the
researches and investigations.
In the field of EPS cybersecurity there are exist two university-based scientific
corporations:
– Cyberresilient Energy DeliveryConsortium (CREDC Consortium), headed by Illinois University in partnership with two National Laboratories and eight universities. The research activities are focused on detecting cyberattacks in real-time
mode assuring situational awareness, creation of architecture, and technologies
resilient to cyberattacks.
– The Cybersecurity Center for Secure Evolvable Energy Delivery Systems,
headed by Arkansas University jointly with five more universities. The scope
of research activities encompasses adaptive systems of cybersecurity, upgrading
of cybersecurity resources and others.
Thuswise in the USA, the most considerable and profound attention is given to
protection of electric power system against cyberthreats in connection with extreme
significance of energy sector of national infrastructure. Currently the protection of
the USA electric power system against cyberattacks is not sufficient and therefore
the major efforts are focused both at protection of the existing and creation futureoriented advantageous electric power systems possessing ability for reconfiguration
and self-recovery in automated mode. So far there have been employed the tools for
monitoring, analysis, and assessment of cyberprotection status of this system and
also auto detection of cyberattacks.
Finally it is worth noting that presently cyberweapons are being developed in more
than 120 countries, multinational unions, groups, and communities of the so-called
hackers, whereas development of nuclear weapons is carried out by not more than
20 countries.
Literature
1. Detailed technical description of worm propagation tool see: Sintzov Aleksei.
Spy Label: Stuxnet Trojan history. 2010, November 18, Hacker.#9/10. http://
www.xakep.ru/post/53950/default.asp
2. A.I. Belous, A.S. Turtsevich “Concepts, methods and tools for assuring information security in digital state”, Ministry of Education, Republic of Belarus,
Fr.Skaryna’ University of Homel, Homel, 2019
3. See: A.V. Fedorova Superterrorism: New challenges of new epoch. Scientific
notes of PIR-Center: national and global security, #2 (20), Moscow, “Prava
Cheloveka”\”Human Righrs”, 2002, p.64.
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development programs and other activities aimed at improvement of EPS immunity
and its ability to rapid recovery after accidents.
Researches in the sphere of EPS cybersecurity are carried out mainly in ten
National Laboratories, including Idaho, Sandia, and Pacific Northwest National laboratories. Upon initiative of Sandia National Laboratory, there was founded cyberengineering research institute cooperating closely with producers of equipment for electric power systems. Over 20 universities in the USA appear to be partners of Department of Energy Department of Homeland Security participates in financing of the
researches and investigations.
In the field of EPS cybersecurity there are exist two university-based scientific
corporations:
– Cyberresilient Energy DeliveryConsortium (CREDC Consortium), headed by Illinois University in partnership with two National Laboratories and eight universities. The research activities are focused on detecting cyberattacks in real-time
mode assuring situational awareness, creation of architecture, and technologies
resilient to cyberattacks.
– The Cybersecurity Center for Secure Evolvable Energy Delivery Systems,
headed by Arkansas University jointly with five more universities. The scope
of research activities encompasses adaptive systems of cybersecurity, upgrading
of cybersecurity resources and others.
Thuswise in the USA, the most considerable and profound attention is given to
protection of electric power system against cyberthreats in connection with extreme
significance of energy sector of national infrastructure. Currently the protection of
the USA electric power system against cyberattacks is not sufficient and therefore
the major efforts are focused both at protection of the existing and creation futureoriented advantageous electric power systems possessing ability for reconfiguration
and self-recovery in automated mode. So far there have been employed the tools for
monitoring, analysis, and assessment of cyberprotection status of this system and
also auto detection of cyberattacks.
Finally it is worth noting that presently cyberweapons are being developed in more
than 120 countries, multinational unions, groups, and communities of the so-called
hackers, whereas development of nuclear weapons is carried out by not more than
20 countries.
Literature
1. Detailed technical description of worm propagation tool see: Sintzov Aleksei.
Spy Label: Stuxnet Trojan history. 2010, November 18, Hacker.#9/10. http://
www.xakep.ru/post/53950/default.asp
2. A.I. Belous, A.S. Turtsevich “Concepts, methods and tools for assuring information security in digital state”, Ministry of Education, Republic of Belarus,
Fr.Skaryna’ University of Homel, Homel, 2019
3. See: A.V. Fedorova Superterrorism: New challenges of new epoch. Scientific
notes of PIR-Center: national and global security, #2 (20), Moscow, “Prava
Cheloveka”\”Human Righrs”, 2002, p.64.