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Electric Utility Sector Physical Threats & Response Planning
Physical and cyber security cannot protect against a determined adversary, says Dale M. Steffes, Senior Security Specialist, American Transmission Company, because the risk is never zero. He covers a host of resiliency issues in this presentation, including response planning, spare equipment as a cost-effective part of all plans, and more.
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Risk-based Decision Making in an Age of Evolving Threats
California's Public Utilities Commission has identified five risk categories to its electric utility network: Regulatory, Financing, Competition & Marketing, Operating and Miscellaneous. Arthur Donnell, Supervisor Safety & Enforcement Division Risk Assessment Section, discusses these categories in further detail in this presentation.
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Cross-Functional Integration & Operational Best Practices for Resilience Planning
The key to a successful plan is to first define a risk and business impact analysis, according to Dan Daigler, Southern California Edison's Director of Business Resiliency and Corporate Real Estate. This is broken down into four steps: Strategic, tactical and operational plans on top of procedures, which provide a step-by-step guideline for executing a specific function.
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Government and Private Industry: A Critical Partnership for Infrastructure Security
The Department of Homeland Security's Kelly Wilson teams up with Michele Campanella at ConEdison to detail the CIP-14's Grid Security Responsibilities. They cover three requirements: Vulnerability assessments, security plans and leveraging and learning from government partnerships.
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Grid Resilience in the Age of Severe Earth and Space Weather
Terry Boston, President & CEO, PJM Interconnection, describes the firm's three focus areas; Reliability, or keeping the lights on; Market Operation, meaning operating fair and efficient electricity markets; and Regional Planning for the future in this presentation
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Protecting Your Assets from Both Natural Disasters and Physical Attacks
Building resiliency and redundancy into the electric system reduces risk and, according to Richard Wernsing, Manager of Asset Strategy at PSE&G, it can be achieved through a feedback loop of continuous improvement within a Security Risk Framework. Richard discusses the Security Risk Framework the company implements to tackle the three prong risks of physical, cyber and weather-related attacks in this past presentation.
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Ensuring the Grid is Ultra Reliable Today and in the Future
To increase the resiliency of the electrical grid, utilities need to implement a five-prong approach: Knowledge, Awareness, Prevention, Defense, Mitigation and Restoration. Santiago Grijalva, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology says this approach will help companies determine what can happen, better detect if something is happening, avoid short- and long-term causes, deter causes, reduce consequences and quickly restore components and systems.