ABSTRACT
Cybersecurity is a major challenge for protecting the utility’s critical infrastructure amid the growing population of critical cyber assets within the electric system. In this chapter, we explore the vulnerabilities, threats, and analytic approaches to responding to cyberwarfare against the utility, especially in the
context of the smart grid and the digital network that drives the modernized grid. Also discussed is the looming failure of traditional cybersecurity tactics in meeting the increased threat levels against the utility, as well as why a program of security analytics may be the best option for proactively and cost-effectively containing threats from the field, the enterprise, and even the physical plant.
