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CIP Compliance Yields Security Complacency
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Hardening the Power Grid
How to improve reliability by hardening the power grid
BY BO ZENG, WEI YUAN & LONG ZHAO, University of South Florida
North America relies heavily on its interconnected power grid. Throughout its history, the grid has provided years of reliable electricity to 300 million people to power home electronics, large industrial motors, critical machines in hospitals (that is, life support systems), among others. However, this reliability is now coming into question. The power grid is...
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