Lecture 27: Power Grid and Other Infrastructure

Date: December 2, 2013
Homework due: Dec. 6 at 5:00pm
  1. Thinking about information warfare
    1. Domains of attack: physical vs. cyber
    2. Use of information to shape environment in non-lethal ways
    3. Preventative disruptions; peacetime vs. wartime
  2. Cyber warfare goals
    1. Destruction (including non-physical)
    2. Disabling, crippling, disruption
    3. Delay
    4. Diversion (distraction), distortion
    5. Monitoring, controlling
  3. Higher order goals
    1. Swaggering
    2. Punishing
    3. Deterrence
    4. Coercion
    5. Undermining confidence and legitimacy
    6. Market manipulation
  4. Cyber-Physical Systems / Control Systems
  5. Supervisory Control And Data Aquisition (SCADA)
  6. The legacy power grid; Project Aurora
  7. Fault tolerance and redundancy
  8. Smart meters and grids
  9. Automobiles
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