Energy infrastructure survivability, inherent limitations, obstacles and mitigation strategies

Frederick Sheldon, Tom Potok, Andy Loebl, Axel Krings, Paul Oman

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Abstract

The blackout of August 14, 2003 affected 8 states and fifty million people and could cost up to $5 billion2. Yet another press release claims it may have cost Ohio manufacturers $1.1 billion, based on a poll of 275 companies. Preliminary reports3 indicate the outage progressed as a chain of relatively minor events, rather than a single catastrophic failure. This is consistent with previous cascading outages, which were caused by a domino reaction4. The increasingly ubiquitous use of embedded systems to manage and control our technologically complex society makes our homeland security even more vulnerable. Therefore, knowing how vulnerable such systems are is essential to improving their intrinsic reliability/survivability (in a deregulated environment knowing these important properties is equally essential to the providers).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the IASTED International Conference, PowerCon 2003 - Special Theme
Subtitle of host publicationBlackout
EditorsA. Domijan, Jr.
Pages49-53
Number of pages5
StatePublished - 2003
EventProceedings of the IASTED International Conference, PowerCon 2003 - Special Theme: Blackout - New York, NY., United States
Duration: Dec 10 2003Dec 12 2003

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IASTED International Conference, PowerCon 2003 - Special Theme: Blackout

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the IASTED International Conference, PowerCon 2003 - Special Theme: Blackout
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York, NY.
Period12/10/0312/12/03

Keywords

  • Cyber Security
  • Network Vulnerability
  • Stochastic Modeling

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