1. Session 3B: Cyber Security for Distributed Renewable Generation
and Smart Grids
Moderator: Ralph Martinez, Director, Regional Cyber and Energy
Security Center, The University of Texas at El Paso
• Angel Avila, Cyber Specialist, Defensive Network Security
Consultants, LLC
• Charles Hamilton, Protective Security Advisor, Department of
Homeland Security
• Gene Rodriquez, Energy and Utilities Industry Solutions
Executive, IBM

2. Definitions for Cyber and Energy Security
Cyber Energy
Security Security
• Cyber security measures and prevents • Energy security allows
endangerment to energy system cyber government, industry and civil institutions
infrastructure due to external and internal to:
agents.
• Prevent loss of access to power and fuel
• External Agents: sources (surety)
• industrial espionage • Ensure resilience in energy systems
• international crime groups (survivability)
• terrorist groups • Provide access to alternative and
• natural disasters renewable energy sources available on
installations (supply)
• Internal Agents: • Provide adequate power for critical
• disgruntled employees
missions (sufficiency)
• user errors
• Promote support for the customer’s
• equipment failures
mission, its community, and the
• Agents can alter the infrastructure at environment (sustainability).
different levels (network, system, individual • Promote the adoption of distributed
component) to destabilize it to renewable generation, such as solar PV
unpredictable conditions. and wind.
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3. Recent Cyber and Energy Security
Incidents
Cyber Security Incidents:
• Insider Security Threats to Utilities
• Security Incidents Rise In Industrial Control Systems
• Spike In Power Grid Attacks Likely In Next 12 Months
CBS 60 Minutes Video on Cyber and Energy Security of the U.S. Power
Grid
• http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6578069n
Energy Security Incidents:
• One Electrical Worker Blamed for Leaving Millions Without Power in
California, Arizona and Mexico, September 2011
• Arizona Wildfire Forces Evacuations as Texas, New Mexico Face
Power Outages
• January’s freeze still has the Sun City shivering
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4. Steps to Achieving a Security and Reliable
Power Grid in RCES Center
• RCES Center Core Capabilities
• Derived from DOE/DoD WGs Sustain
Year 5-6
• Product and Services test and Cyber Cyber Security
certification Test &
Systems
• VARM Certification
Manage
• Ancillary RCES Center Capabilities Interoperability Year 4-5 Incidents
• Solar PV Market Acceleration With Electric
Grid Standards & Training
• Cyber Security/Power Degrees
• Workforce Training Develop Test
• Professional Engineer training Cyber Security Architecture Year 3-4 & Certification
• Technology Transfer And Requirements for Region Methodology
• Educational Workshops
Conceptual Cyber Security Year 2-3 Assess &
Reference Model for Electric Grids Monitor Risk
Build Cyber
Regional Business and Public Year 1
Policy Requirements
Security & Solar
Culture
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5. *
* NIST/EPRI Smart Grid Interim Roadmap Report, June 2009
Seven Smart Grid
Domains
Cyber Security
Everywhere
Physical and
Operational
Security
For Domains
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6. Cyber Security
Everywhere
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7. Session 3B: Cyber Security for
Distributed Renewable Generation and
Smart Grids
• Angel Avila, Cyber Specialist, Defensive Network Security
Consultants, LLC
• Charles Hamilton, Protective Security Advisor, Department of
Homeland Security
• Gene Rodriquez, Energy and Utilities Industry Solutions
Executive, IBM
• Panel Discussion
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