Smart Grid Security

Langue : anglais

Edité par Springer, 2013

3642380298 / 9783642380297

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Smart Grid Security (2013) is one of those magnificent modern volumes built around a deeply reassuring premise: the future of civilisation will depend on exquisitely complex, permanently connected energy infrastructure, and surely nothing unfortunate will happen there. Edited by Jorge Cuellar and published by Springer, this is a serious book for serious people thinking serious thoughts about what happens when you take the humble power grid?once content merely to exist in the background?and persuade it to become ?smart? As ever, the moment something becomes smart, it also becomes vulnerable to attack, surveillance, system failure, protocol disputes, architectural headaches, and the quiet dread of specialists who know exactly how many things can go wrong. This is where Smart Grid Security comes in: a sober, technically minded exploration of how to secure the machinery that keeps the lights on while the rest of us are busy boiling kettles, charging phones, and assuming electricity simply emerges by divine right from the wall. It deals in the hidden drama of infrastructure, that most underappreciated of human achievements, where cybersecurity stops being an abstract nuisance involving passwords and starts becoming a question of whether an entire network can be trusted not to misbehave at scale. The beauty of a book like this is that it belongs to a very particular intellectual genre: the expert warning. Not a hysterical warning, not a tabloid warning, but the calm, polished, peer-reviewed warning of people who have looked at a vast interconnected system and said, with admirable restraint, ?this may require some thought.? It is, in other words, exactly the kind of book you want to exist, even if you would rather not dwell too long on why it needed to be written. Expect a parade of concepts that sound both immensely competent and faintly ominous: architectures, protocols, threats, resilience, privacy, authentication, critical infrastructure. The vocabulary alone is enough to make you sit up straighter. This is not a beach read unless your ideal beach involves an overcast sky, a conference lanyard, and a prolonged debate about secure communications in distributed energy systems. Still, there is a dry grandeur to it. The smart grid is one of those quietly enormous ideas that reveals how modern life actually works: meters talking to systems, systems talking to utilities, utilities talking to networks, and everyone hoping the conversation remains civilised. This book peers into that conversation and asks the slightly awkward but necessary question: what if someone malicious joins in? Condition: Good, which feels somehow appropriate for a book about hardening vulnerable systems. It has survived. It remains serviceable. It knows things. An excellent find for engineers, cybersecurity professionals, infrastructure obsessives, or anyone who enjoys books that reveal just how much elaborate invisible machinery is required to let society function without immediate collapse. Dry? Certainly. Important? Absolutely. Comforting? Not especially.…

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Titre
Smart Grid Security
Auteur
Jorge Cuellar
Éditeur
Springer
Année de publication
2013
État de l'article
Very Good
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
3642380298
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9783642380297

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