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Security Vulnerability and Patch Management in Electric Utilities: A Data-Driven Analysis

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OSTI ID:1434513
 [1];  [2]
  1. Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (United States); University of Arkansas
  2. Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (United States)
This paper explores a real security vulnerability and patch management dataset from an electric utility in order to shed light on characteristics of the vulnerabilities that electric utility assets have and how they are remediated in practice. Specifically, it first analyzes the distribution of vulnerabilities over software, assets, and other metric. Then it analyzes how vulnerability features affect remediate actions.
Research Organization:
University of Arkansas
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE)
DOE Contract Number:
OE0000779
OSTI ID:
1434513
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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