Phoenix Convention Center Phoenix, Arizona When Prevention and Preparation May Not be Enough: Resilience and Recovery for the Electricity Sub-Sector Operational Resilience and Recovery ] David Batz Director, Cyber & Infrastructure Security Edison Electric Institute August 12, 2015
Energy Exchange : Federal Sustainability for the Next Decade Edison Electric Institute U.S. investor- owned electric companies Our members: Represent 70% of US Power Industry Provide electricity for 220 million Americans Operate in all 50 states and DC Employ more than 500,000 workers
Energy Exchange : Federal Sustainability for the Next Decade Engineered for fault tolerance In the face of failure scenario: Respond Restore Recover Bulk Electric System Resilience
Metcalf Incident April 16, 2013 WSJ 2/ Assault on California Power Station Raises Alarm on Potential for Terrorism Sniper Attack On Calif. Power Station Raises Terrorism Fears High-Powered Attack On PG&E Substation Raises Concerns About Combined Threats to Grid U.S. Risks National Blackout from Small-Scale Attack How Safe and Reliable is America’s Electric Grid? Electric-Grid Attack Fuels Sniper- Versus-Hacker Debate Power Grid Preparedness Falls Short, Report Says Concern Over Power Grid Security Mounts in Congress
Energy Exchange : Federal Sustainability for the Next Decade Bulk Electric System Resilience kV kV kV kV kV kV kV kV Spare Transformer Equipment Program
Energy Exchange : Federal Sustainability for the Next Decade International Resilience Voluntary Program Provides access to transmission and generation step-up (GSU) transformers and related equipment, including bushings, fans, and auxiliary components. An Online tool to – Communicate equipment needs – Identify points of contact for equipment Utility-to-Utility arrangements are made offline
Energy Exchange : Federal Sustainability for the Next Decade Transformers and other critical, long lead-time equipment Qualifying events like physical attacks, electromagnetic pulses, solar storms, cyberattacks, earthquakes and severe weather events Industry-based initiative that plans to own and maintain equipment at secure, strategically located warehouses, and to offer additional logistics support to expedite equipment transportation to impacted sites. Grid Assurance will not be FERC-regulated, but plans to charge cost-based subscription fees, similar to FERC-regulated transmission, to facilitate subscribers’ ability to recover expenses. 7 Grid Assurance
Energy Exchange : Federal Sustainability for the Next Decade EEI Threat Scenario Project
Energy Exchange : Federal Sustainability for the Next Decade Coordinated Cyber Attack Advanced Persistent Threat Disruption of Voice and Data Services Coordinated Physical and Cyber Attack Insider Sabotage Pandemic Supply Chain Disruption or Compromise Catastrophic Human Error Intentional Electromagnetic Interference Distributed Denial of Service Identification of Top Threats
Energy Exchange : Federal Sustainability for the Next Decade Spectrum of Threat Actors Nation States (and their surrogates) Sophisticated Terrorist Organizations (and their surrogates) Mercenary Criminal Organizations Domestic Extremist Organizations (and their surrogates) Elite Hacker Organizations Co-opted Third Party Maintenance Providers Disgruntled Insiders (as well as threat-specific variations of the above actors)
Energy Exchange : Federal Sustainability for the Next Decade Your Turn: Questions
Energy Exchange : Federal Sustainability for the Next Decade 12 Backup Slides
Energy Exchange : Federal Sustainability for the Next Decade Industry-Government Organizational Structure 16 Critical Infrastructure Sectors & Sector-Specific Agencies
Principal liaison between the electric power industry and the federal government Establishes dialogue between industry CEOs and senior administration officials Facilitates and supports the coordination of subsector- wide, policy-related activities designed to improve the resilience of the electricity sector Areas of Focus: Tools & Technology Information Flow Incident Response