UC-Lab Center for Electricity Distribution Cybersecurity

Background

This project will bring together a multi-disciplinary UC-Lab team of cybersecurity and electricity infrastructure experts to investigate, through both cyber and physical modeling and physics-aware cybersecurity analysis, the impact and significance of cyberattacks on electricity distribution infrastructure. We will develop new strategies for mitigating vulnerabilities, detecting intrusion, and protecting against detrimental system wide impact. This project will build a new knowledge base to address both theoretical and practical challenges in electricity distribution cybersecurity.

Principal Investigators:

Hamed Mohsenian-Rad (PI; UC Riverside)
Mahnoosh Alizadeh (Co-PI; PI at UC Santa Barbara)
Rajit Gadh (Co-PI; PI at UC Los Angeles)
Sean Peisert (Co-PI; PI at LBNL)
Keyue Smedley (Co-PI; PI at UC Irvine)
Emma Stewart (Co-PI; PI at LLNL)

Read more at the UC-National Lab Center for Power Distribution Cyber Security web site.

Press regarding this project:

Lab Researchers Awarded Funds for Climate Science, Cybersecurity Research — March 15, 2018

Publications resulting from this project:

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This project is funded by the UC-Lab Fees Research Program.

More information is available on other Berkeley Lab research projects focusing on cybersecurity in general, as well as specifically on cybersecurity for energy delivery systems.