Responding to Critical Infrastructure Threats of Reliability and Security: Economic, Organizational and Technical Perspectives for a Next Generation US Electric Grid
Elizabeth White Baker · Journal of Information Privacy and Security · 2008
The US electricity grid is a central piece of critical infrastructure, extremely vulnerable to exogenous attacks, and requiring an enhanced command and control system to be prepared for emergencies. The current economic climate of deregulation of the electricity industry has made this objective of grid emergency preparedness simultaneously more imperative and more difficult to achieve. This paper outlines essential components of an information systems-based technical command and control solution for the US grid and discusses the current and future economic, regulatory and organizational factors surrounding the grid that would ensure its reliability should an emergency situation arise.