Power Sector Cybersecurity Building Blocks

Technical Report · Tue Mar 30 04:00:00 EDT 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1774880· OSTI ID:1774880

Martin, Maurice ^[1]; Reynolds, Tami ^[1]; Sanghvi, Anuj ^[1]; Cox, Sadie ^[1]; Elsworth, James ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

The Power Sector Cybersecurity Building Blocks, developed through the USAID-NREL Partnership and the Resilient Energy Platform, are designed to help a variety of stakeholders improve security for the electrical grid. This effort grows out of USAID and NREL's discussions with utilities around the world, as well as past cybersecurity assessments performed by NREL on dozens of utilities and government agencies, with a focus on the cybersecurity challenges faced by small and under-resourced utilities. This document outlines eleven building blocks for power sector cyber security. It functions as a guide to help organizations develop a robust, balanced cybersecurity defense program. Individually, each building block represents a cluster of related activities within cybersecurity on which an organization should focus. Using the building blocks, organizations can effectively prioritize their cybersecurity efforts to best thwart a wide range of potential cyberattacks.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1774880
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-5R00-79396; MainId:33622; UUID:5d35ab7e-c48b-4136-b141-2d324e1e2aeb; MainAdminID:21199
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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