The global market for utility smart grids is projected to exceed $122B in the next five years with distribution automation (DA) and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) comprising the two largest market applications. Smart grid deployments can increase service reliability, lower costs for operators and consumers, and improve conservation of power, gas, water, and other utilities. However, these deployments also create a complex and interconnected infrastructure, which is challenging to monitor, manage, and defend.
Smart grid infrastructure is routinely subject to dropped communications, faults and misconfigurations in devices, and service degradation due to radio frequency (RF) environment changes or introduction of new service applications. These conditions need to be proactively identified and rapidly remedied as part of normal service assurance operations. Smart grid infrastructure is also an attractive target for malicious activity by cyber criminals. Achieving the promise of DA, AMI, and other smart grid applications while avoiding the perils, requires intelligent, real-time situational awareness and defense for smart grid infrastructure and field area networks.
Smart grid applications rely upon communications systems, field networks, and endpoint devices, such as meters, reclosers, and cap banks for real-time energy management, customer billing, and remote service connect/disconnect operations. Extreme weather, equipment failures, and cyberattacks can disrupt, corrupt, or deny delivery of critical services. The potential consequences range from exposure of sensitive customer data and interruptions in meter-to-cash to extended service outages, corruption of advanced distribution management systems, and denial of critical services, which can threaten lives and property.
Peraton Labs’ SecureSmart™ is a proven solution to monitor and protect utility smart grids—delivering managed threat detection, situational awareness, and network performance monitoring. With over ten years of operational deployment, SecureSmart defends infrastructure from cyber intrusion, enables rapid isolation and repair for faults and outages, monitors the privacy of ratepayer information, and supports network operations and system optimization to assure reliable, secure utility services. The SecureSmart solution line has also been recognized by eight providers of cyber insurance as a designated Cyber Catalyst technology with demonstrated ability to reduce cyber risk (Cyber Catalyst (marsh.com), Cohort 1).
Using a sparse network of patented, wireless field sensors that passively capture and analyze over-the-air traffic, SecureSmart monitors all channels simultaneously in multichannel, multi-data rate field networks. SecureSmart’s separate and secure backhaul communications ensures the service network is not burdened with monitoring traffic. When centrally deployed in backend infrastructure, SecureSmart monitors field network ingress and egress traffic for device management and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. Utilities across American use SecureSmart for real-time, packet-level, ground-truth visibility, service assurance, and cybersecurity threat detection. SecureSmart is available as an operator-run licensed product or as a hosted, managed service with expert analysts.
SecureSmart applications provide:
Find out how SecureSmart can protect your utility smart grid at CMaaS - Peraton Labs or [email protected].
Smart grid infrastructure is routinely subject to dropped communications, faults and misconfigurations in devices, and service degradation due to radio frequency (RF) environment changes or introduction of new service applications. These conditions need to be proactively identified and rapidly remedied as part of normal service assurance operations. Smart grid infrastructure is also an attractive target for malicious activity by cyber criminals. Achieving the promise of DA, AMI, and other smart grid applications while avoiding the perils, requires intelligent, real-time situational awareness and defense for smart grid infrastructure and field area networks.
Smart grid applications rely upon communications systems, field networks, and endpoint devices, such as meters, reclosers, and cap banks for real-time energy management, customer billing, and remote service connect/disconnect operations. Extreme weather, equipment failures, and cyberattacks can disrupt, corrupt, or deny delivery of critical services. The potential consequences range from exposure of sensitive customer data and interruptions in meter-to-cash to extended service outages, corruption of advanced distribution management systems, and denial of critical services, which can threaten lives and property.
Peraton Labs’ SecureSmart™ is a proven solution to monitor and protect utility smart grids—delivering managed threat detection, situational awareness, and network performance monitoring. With over ten years of operational deployment, SecureSmart defends infrastructure from cyber intrusion, enables rapid isolation and repair for faults and outages, monitors the privacy of ratepayer information, and supports network operations and system optimization to assure reliable, secure utility services. The SecureSmart solution line has also been recognized by eight providers of cyber insurance as a designated Cyber Catalyst technology with demonstrated ability to reduce cyber risk (Cyber Catalyst (marsh.com), Cohort 1).
Using a sparse network of patented, wireless field sensors that passively capture and analyze over-the-air traffic, SecureSmart monitors all channels simultaneously in multichannel, multi-data rate field networks. SecureSmart’s separate and secure backhaul communications ensures the service network is not burdened with monitoring traffic. When centrally deployed in backend infrastructure, SecureSmart monitors field network ingress and egress traffic for device management and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. Utilities across American use SecureSmart for real-time, packet-level, ground-truth visibility, service assurance, and cybersecurity threat detection. SecureSmart is available as an operator-run licensed product or as a hosted, managed service with expert analysts.
SecureSmart applications provide:
- Live views of field traffic and device interactions with packet dissection starting at the radio level
- A service assurance dashboard of key security, service, and network performance indicators
- Real-time troubleshooting to localize faults more quickly, resolve them at lower cost, and reduce truck rolls
- Advanced performance monitoring to shorten service outages, defend meter-to-cash, and enable predictive maintenance
- Custom cyber threat detection based on experience-driven findings and domain-specific offensive security analysis Field network optimization to support managed multi-application service delivery on a single network
- Data and system analytics, queries, and visualizations, including comparisons to historical data, to track and ensure progress against performance standards
Find out how SecureSmart can protect your utility smart grid at CMaaS - Peraton Labs or [email protected].
