Ebook: Securing the Smart Grid: Next Generation Power Grid Security

Front Cover; Securing the Smart Grid; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments (Tony Flick); Acknowledgments (Justin Morehouse); About the Authors; About the Technical Editor; Introduction; Book Overview and Key Learning Points; Book Audience; How This Book Is Organized; Conclusion; Chapter 1. Smart Grid: What Is It?; A Brief History of Electrical Grids; What Is Automatic Meter Reading (AMR)?; Future Infrastructure; What Is a Smart Grid?; What Is AMI?; International Initiatives; Why Do We Need to Secure the Smart Grid?; Summary; Endnotes; Chapter 2. Threats and Impacts: Consumers.;Securing the Smart Grid discusses the features of the smart grid, particularly its strengths and weaknesses, to better understand threats and attacks, and to prevent insecure deployments of smart grid technologies. A smart grid is a modernized electric grid that uses information and communications technology to be able to process information, such as the behaviors of suppliers and consumers. The book discusses different infrastructures in a smart grid, such as the automatic metering infrastructure (AMI). It also discusses the controls that consumers, device manufacturers, and utility comp.