It is just a matter of time before one or more power grid attacks result in a major blackout, causing immense economic and physical loss.
“They must know if you cut off our power, deprive us of electricity, deprive us of water, deprive us of gasoline, you need to know we have the right to do it [to you].”
But when it comes to protecting America’s electric grid, the U.S. government has been missing in action for decades. The resulting standard the industry was forced to write exempted most facilities and required no actual physical security measures to be taken. Physical attacks against the grid continued.
Outside grid security experts and engineers have argued that the industry needs to improve physical security standards for critical assets in the country’s electrical grid, motivated in part by a federal study that showed that physical sabotage attacks against only a small number of critical nodes in the grid would be sufficient to cause a prolonged and devastating nationwide blackout.
Imagine if the auto industry deliberately refused to use data from their excellent crash simulators and crash dummies to provide input to their engineers to make cars safer. Wouldn’t that be criminally irresponsible?Unfortunately, attacks on the electric grid aren’t going away. According to data submitted to the Department of Energy by the electric power industry, physical attacks have resulted in electric disturbances in 1,072 cases from January 2010 through this past June — a rate of nearly 1.
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