Electric Power Grid Indications and Warning Tool
Abstract
The Electric Power grid makes an attractive target because it is the foundational critical infrastructure that underlies all others. A successful attack on the power grid causing a wide-area long-term outage would have significant national security, economic, and public health and safety consequences. Power grid outages could even cause additional cascading failures in other critical infrastructures due to the high dependency on electrical power. Hence, it is imperative that public and private authorities receive Indications and Warnings(I and W) when such attacks are in the early operational phases in order to mitigate their consequences. Towards that end, we have developed a prototype Electric Power I and W tool to provide near real-time I and W to alert private and public sector authorities when the likely causes of outage events are malicious activity.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2012
- Accession Number
- AD1108769
Entities
People
- David Koester
- Michael Cohen
Organizations
- MITRE Corporation