Cybersecurity for Power Systems

Where this fits

A defensive overview of protecting digital systems that support electricity operations.

Core system ideas

Grid cybersecurity includes asset inventory, access control, segmentation, monitoring, backup, incident response and recovery.

Operational technology has availability and safety requirements that differ from ordinary office IT.

This site provides defensive concepts only and no exploit, bypass or attack instructions.

Interfaces and tradeoffs

Modernization layers sensing, communications, software and power electronics onto the physical grid. Those additions create new capabilities as well as lifecycle, interoperability and cybersecurity dependencies.

What organizations measure

Asset coverage, access reviews, backup success, incident response, recovery tests and patch/change status.