Having regulators, as a condition of approving smart grid investments, require utilities to deploy smart grid technologies in a manner consistent with reasonable and effective cyber and physicalsecurity best practices.
For the past two years we have been meeting with cyber and physicalsecurity professionals from all over the country and in a number of foreign venues to plan the camp and its allied Security Intelligence Lab.
We have teamed up with one of the most respected cyber-universities in the United States to develop a program to integrate the two sciences (cyber and physicalsecurity) into an environment similar to that of Space Camp at the Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
We will present a two-week immersive environment where we will teach 100 kids the fundamentals about cyber, physical, and environmental security issues in the hope that we will stimulate more interest and get them into a college curriculum of security.
Rising demand for energy, the construction of new facilities and physical and cyber threats to these installations have led to growth in the oil and gas infrastructure security market, the report said.