Cyber-attacks on Smart Grid Infrastructures

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• Professor Christopher Johnson, University of Glasgow
• Thursday 09 October 2014, 16:00-17:00
• Hills Building, Room 120.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Mohammad Tayarani.

Over the last decade we have seen the increasing integration of energy distribution and generation systems around the globe. The use of advanced scheduling algorithms and so-called ‘Smart Grid’ technologies offer flexible solutions to changing patterns of demand – however, they also create significant vulnerabilities. In this talk, I will describe the recent collapse of international power networks across Europe, Asia and North America – focussing on the role that computational systems played in these failures. In the second half of the talk, I will consider the insights that these failures provide about the vulnerabilities of Smart Grid infrastructures to state-sponsored cyber-attacks. This last topic is closely related to two recent projects on the cyber-security of the new UK civil nuclear reactor programme.

This talk is part of the Computer Science Departmental Series series.

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