POLICY: June 2009 Archives

The challenge for "risk-based planning" and "all-hazards preparedness is how to prioritize risks from the nearly infinite panoply of potential hazards.

A new paper from the Rand Corporation, Emerging Threats and Security Planning: How Should We Decide What Hypothetical Threats to Worry About? attempts to unpack some of these complexities, offering a model for assessing terrorist risk scenarios.  READ MORE

Security specialists are working to make sure the plans to develop a smart electric grid that relies on the Internet to supply and monitor power across the country will include security standards for reducing vulnerabilities to cyberattack.  READ MORE

We had a good introduction to smart grid security at our Spring 2009 Quarterly chapter meeting.  Tom Kropp's presentation is now posted on the Member's pages, MORE INFO

The NIST EISA Domain Expert Working Group is hosting a WIKI in support of the NIST mandate to facilitate Smart Grid standards interoperability, MORE INFO