Demonstrating Security on the Smart Grid.

This demo is intended to highlight the  “weaknesses” of the Smart Grid and how these problems can be resolved. Please contact us with any comments you may have or, to address any questions on  Smart Grid  security, to our expert: Dr. Matthew Campagna Ph.D., Director, Certicom Research.

The Grid 1890-1990 For one hundred years, electricity producers have been 99.9% dependable at one critical task - producing and sending electricity in one direction: to the end customer.		The Smart Grid today Today electricity flows both up and down the grid, offering improved demand response. Underlying this paradigm shift, is new functionality with unprecedented two-way communications, backed by sensitive, two-way control of this ‘smarter grid’.		Smart Grid Security Given this new and powerful, two-way control capability and its underlying two-way communications allowing you to monitor, meter and control these millions of remote devices, comes an entirely new threat of a cyber security breach to the communications and control elements of your ‘smart’ grid topology.