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.

Location       Time  
       
ComEd Commercial Center - Auditorium   5:30 PM   Social
1919 Swift Drive (park behind building)   6:00 PM   Dinner (optional)
Oak Brook, IL 60523-1850   6:45 PM   Presentation
(near I-290 & I-294 interchange)   8:00 PM   Adjourn
630-684-3200      

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