The SPARKS project organised the third in its ongoing series of stakeholder workshops in Belfast on 26th August, 2016. The event was held alongside the excellent ICS-CSR conference, which we wrote about in a previous blog entry. The focus of the workshop was to highlight the emerging threats that smart grid stakeholders face, and the […]
I spoke recently at a workshop organized by the Alan Turing Institute in London to identify areas related to cyber security in which major research is needed. Though I focused on security analytics, I also talked about the need to develop more effective models for understanding and managing risk, citing the work that we are […]
As we call out on the SPARKS overview webpage, our project aims to provide innovtive solutions to ensure the cybersecurity and resilience of smart grids. Those innovations include technological advancements, particulary through our four mini-projects: 1) intrustion detection systems for SCADA, 2) cyberattack-resilient control systems, 2) security analytics for Smart Grid, and 4) use of […]
In early July, Lloyds published “Business Blackout: The insurance implications of an cyber attack on the US power grid”, a study of the financial impact of a hypothetical electric grid failure scenario in the US. Developed jointly with the University of Cambridge Center for Risk Studies, it is an very important report not only for […]
