Released: 4-Mar-2016 9:00 AM EST
Source Newsroom: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Newswise — The recent cyber attack on Ukraine’s power grid highlights a new challenge for the United States: not only protecting our electric system against such attacks, but also ensuring that utilities can rapidly restore power if the grid goes down.
Decades of experience with hurricanes and other natural hazards has helped utilities hone their ability to restore power in Superstorm Sandy and other massive blackouts. However, sophisticated cyber adversaries could strike the grid in entirely different ways, by corrupting the integrity of utility control systems and disrupting other vital grid operations and components.
The challenges for restoring power after such attacks will be starkly different as well. In Sandy, power companies from as far away as California could send power restoration teams to the stricken region, safe in the knowledge that their own utilities would escape the storm. A nationwide cyber attack will strip away that sense of safety and fray the mutual assistance system that lies at the heart of the U.S. power restoration system.
Full article: http://www.newswise.com/articles/how-america-s-electric-utilities-can-speed-recovery-from-cyber-induced-blackouts
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