Live from the First Smart Grid Cyber Security Summit

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We're underway here in San Jose and it's going great so far. Getting 80 folks to show up in August is a pretty impressive feat for a first-ever conference. It's a good mix including utilities, regulatory and industry personnel.

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This picture shows Mark Schaeffer of GraniteKey, Matt Carpenter of InGuardians and Gib Sorebo of  SAIC leading a talk called Best Practices in Grid Detection and Prevention. Won't have much of a chance to write up most of this, but I will try to extract a few nuggets.

Most in keeping with one of the primary themes of our blog was a statement during Scott Borg's kickoff keynote on the value of Smart Grid security. Borg noted that: Attacks that undermine trust could prevent the Smart Grid from happening.

 

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IMHO, everything we're doing here at the conference and back in our day jobs stems from that one simple assertion. 

You can see the agenda we're working through right now HERE.

Anyway, just wanted you to know that good things are happening here and that, thanks to strong interest and attendance, this conversation will continue in subsequent versions of the conference -- maybe one back East.

Andy Bochman and Jack Danahy are authors of the Smart Grid Security Blog.

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