The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued today its first Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security, which includes high-level security requirements, a framework for assessing risks, an evaluation of privacy issues at personal residences, and additional information for businesses and organizations to use as they craft strategies to protect the modernizing power grid from attacks, malicious code, cascading errors, and other threats.
The product of two formal public reviews and the focus of numerous workshops and teleconferences over the past 17 months, the three-volume set of guidelines is intended to facilitate organization-specific Smart Grid cyber security strategies focused on prevention, detection, response and recovery.
"As we modernize the nation's electric infrastructure to make it smarter, more efficient, and more capable, we need to make it more secure from end to end," U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said. "These new cyber security guidelines will help government and industry meet this important responsibility."
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