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November 30, 2020December 1, 2020

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November 30, 2020December 5, 2020

Southern Company’s Mississippi Power Is Developing a Smart and Renewable Community

This new smart neighborhood will consist of over 100 homes that will feature Tesla Solar Roof Panels and Powerwalls along with smart home appliances and automation, allowing homeowners much more control over their household and electricity demand. The smart neighborhood will be located in Lauderdale County with construction beginning in 2021.

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November 30, 2020December 5, 2020

Cybersecurity Considerations for Power Substation SCADA Systems Using IEC-61850 Communications

When including security controls into a SCADA system design, it is sometimes difficult to separate design
goals from security requirements. The foremost goal for a SCADA system is to provide protection,
automation, and data acquisition. This paper discusses major
vulnerabilities and cybersecurity considerations that require proper analysis when designing and
implementing a secure IEC-61850 standard-based SCADA system within a power substation.

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November 30, 2020December 5, 2020

Securing Legacy SCADA Systems Against Cyber Threats

There are numerous cyber threats and vulnerabilities announced almost daily with warnings across this country directed at our energy and critical infrastructure sectors from various organizations, such as: FBI, DHS, NSA, DOD, DOE, FERC, NERC, CISA, USCYBERCOM, and many more… These warnings have been directed specifically towards the power utility sector as being very vulnerable towards future cyber threats.

For the electric power industry and other service sectors, Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA) has performed a crucial role by allowing better decision making through operating, controlling, monitoring and maintaining critical control systems.

With Smart Grid (SG) and Distributed Generation (DG) gaining more popularity results in more 3rd party stakeholders demanding access to utilities’ SCADA system. Some utility SCADA systems are older legacy systems that are in dire need of replacing in order to have: a more secure system, access to the latest vendor security patch updates, and to allow for better functionality, etc.