Challenges and Approaches for a Trustworthy Power Grid Cyber Infrastructure
KEC 1003
Monday, January 12, 2015 - 4:00pm to 4:50pm
Speaker Information
William H. Sanders
Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering
Coordinated Science Laboratory
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. and Information Trust Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The vision for a modernized "Smart Grid" involves the use of an advanced
computing, communication and control cyber infrastructure for enhancing current
grid operations by enabling timely interactions among a range of entities. The
coupling between the power grid and its cyber infrastructure is inherent, and
the extent to which the Smart Grid vision can be achieved depends upon the
functionality and robustness of the cyber infrastructure. This talk describes
some of the research underway at the DOE- and DHS-funded Trustworthy Cyber
Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIPG) Center which is aimed at ensuring
that the power grid cyber infrastructure is protected both from accidental
failures and malicious attacks from adversaries ranging from casual hackers to
nation states. The goal of TCIPG is to provide resilience in the nation's
electric grid cyber infrastructure such that it continues to deliver
electricity and maintain critical operations even in the presence of cyber
attacks. Achieving this goal will involve the extension, integration, design,
and development of IT technologies imbibed with key properties of real-time
availability, integrity, authentication and confidentiality. These results are
being evaluated evaluated in a large-scale testbed with unique capabilities
comprising real power system hardware and software as well as advanced
simulation and emulation capabilities.
Speaker Bio
William H. Sanders is a Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering and the
Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
(ece.illinois.edu) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a
professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and
Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He is a Fellow of
the IEEE, the ACM, and the AAAS; a past Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee
on Fault-Tolerant Computing; and past Vice-Chair of the IFIP Working Group 10.4
on Dependable Computing. He was the founding Director of the Information Trust
Institute (iti.illinois.edu) at Illinois (2004-2011), and served as Director
of the Coordinated Science Laboratory (csl.illinois.edu) at Illinois from 2010
to 2014.
Dr. Sanders's research interests include secure and dependable computing and
security and dependability metrics and evaluation, with a focus on critical
infrastructures. He has published more than 200 technical papers in those
areas. He is currently the Director and PI of the DOE/DHS Trustworthy Cyber
Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIPG) Center (tcipg.org), which is at the
forefront of national efforts to make the U.S. power grid smart and resilient.
He is also co-developer of three tools for assessing computer-based systems:
METASAN, UltraSAN, and Möbius. Möbius and UltraSAN have been distributed widely
to industry and academia; more than 500 licenses for the tools have been
issued to universities, companies, and NASA for evaluating the performance,
dependability, and security of a variety of systems. He is also a co-developer
of the Loki distributed system fault injector, the AQuA/ITUA middlewares for
providing dependability/security to distributed and networked applications, and
the NP-View tool(network-perception.com) for assessing the security of
networked systems.
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