The Department of Defense is the largest, single energy-consuming entity in the United States. Most of the electricity supplied to DoD installations still comes from local utilities. As these utilities deploy new communication and control networks (SCADA, AMI, DRMS, DERMS) to manage their grids, the risk of cyberattacks, or the “attack surface,” increases, potentially threatening mission readiness for these facilities. Ensuring the security of these networks and infrastructure is a key priority for DoD. As a result, utilities, technology vendors, national laboratories are working together with the U.S. military to implement cutting-edge cyber security solutions to protect critical energy infrastructure.
This panel will include representatives from NRECA, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Naval Facilities Engineering Command and Spectrum Solutions, who will discuss development and deployment of Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology for Operational Technologies (OT), referred to as OT-SDN, to protect energy infrastructure from increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats.