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Wiznucleus to present at the upcoming NEI Cyber Security Workshop on January 31-Februray 2, 2012(read more)

Meet us at Power-Gen International December 13th-15th Las Vegas, NV www.wiznucleus.com

Wiznucleus to present at the upcoming Smart Grid Security Summit... (read more)

Wiznucleus to present at the upcoming NERC Compliance Fundamentals Workshop... (read more)

STARS Nuclear Plants Adopt Wiznucleus Risk Assessment & Compliance Platform.(read more)

Pacific Gas & Electric of San Francisco selects Wiznucleus Cyberwiz-Pro (read more)

Luminant Energy selects Wiznucleus Cyberwiz-Pro Software for Comanche(read more)

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation selects Wiznucleus/Cyberwiz-Pro (read more)

Wiznucleus launches NERC-WIZ Life-Cycle Risk Assessment & Compliance software platform (read more)

Multiple Nuclear Power Plants Deploy Risk Assessment & Compliance Software from Wiznucleus (read more)

Industry News

Power grid cybersecurity: $60 piece of software could bring mass chaos

"Utility cybersecurity is in a state of near chaos." While Pike estimated $14 billion will be pumped into the smart grid from now through 2018, with 63% of that for control system security, a "$60 piece of software can bypass an entire defense-in-depth implementation." ...(read more)

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Hackers: Attack on City Water Station Destroys Pump

Intruders launched their attack from IP addresses based in Russia and gained access by hacking inot the network of a software vendor that makes the SCADA...(read more)

U.S. Report Accuses China and Russia of Internet Spying

Washington, DC – American intelligence agencies, in an unusually blunt public criticism of China and Russia, reported to Congress on Thursday that those two foreign governments steal valuable American technology over the Internet as a matter of national policy....(read more)

Researchers warn of new Stuxnet worm

Researchers have found evidence that the Stuxnet worm, which alarmed governments around the world, could be about to regenerate...(read more)

Department of Energy Releases New Roadmap to Guide Public-Private Cybersecurity Initiatives

Washington, DC – As part of the Obama Administration’s goals to enhance the security and reliability of the nation’s energy infrastructure, the U.S. Department of Energy today released the 2011 Roadmap to Achieve Energy Delivery Systems Cybersecurity. Developed as an update to the 2006 Roadmap to Secure Control Systems in the Energy Sector ...(read more)

For the Best Infrastructure Investment, Free the Telecom and Energy Sectors

Spending on infrastructure is a key element in the economic plan President Obama proposed last week. But the critical questions are what the money gets spent on and where it comes from. ...(read more)

DOE Lab Shuts Down Email, Web Access After Sophisticated Cyber-Attack

Cyber-attackers hit another Department of Energy research laboratory last week, forcing IT managers to shut down all of the facility’s computer links to the outside world to try to contain the damage ...(read more)

Ponemon Institute Survey Finds 90 Percent of Businesses Fell Victim to Cyber Security Breach at Least Once in the Past 12 Months

Juniper Networks Sponsored Survey Finds Security Breaches Cost 41 Percent of Businesses at Least a Half a Million Dollars ...(read more)

Cyber attack blocks website of Brazilian presidency

A cyber attack blocked traffic to the webiste of the Brazilian presidency and two other government sites ...(read more)

U.S. Cyber Challenge Announces 2011 Cyber Camps

The U.S. Cyber Challenge today announced the 2011 Cyber Camps, a series of weeklong ...(read more)

String of cyber attacks threat to U.S. security?

Japanese video game developer Sega announced Sunday that hackers broke into its database and stole ...(read more)

Analysis: Cyber raids fuel calls for monitoring

Employers rushing to boost cyber defenses after a rash of U.S. online break-ins ...(read more)

U.S. military sharing secret cyber threat info with defense contractors

A new U.S. military program shares classified information about cyber threats with defense contractors and their ISPs as part of...(read more)

Wanted: mature cyber security response plans - NERC CIP forms foundation, but more needed

The timley release of a report Monday by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) cuts straight to the heart of the electric utility cyber security discussions ongoing ...(read more)

Hackers claim break-in of U.S. Senate computers as CIA chief Panetta warns cyber attack could be 'next Pearl Harbor'

Panetta: Large-scale cyber attack that could take down the major infrastructure is 'real possibility'...(read more)

How to Make the Smart Grid Smarter than Cyber Attackers

As the United States and other countries prepare for the transition to a smarter electrical grid, there's great reason to be optimistic...(read more)

I.M.F. Reports Cyberattack Led to 'Very Major Breach'

WASHINGTON – The International Monetary Fund, still struggling to find a new leader after the arrest...(read more)

Obama Cybersecurity Plan Urges More Disclosure of Breaches

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration's proposal for protecting banks, power grids...(read more)

White House unveils cybersecurity plan

WASHINGTON – Companies that run critical U.S. industries such as power plants would get government...(read more)

US nuclear industry watching, waiting

Japan's reactor crisis has renewed anxiety about nuclear safety and could derail efforts to revive the U.S. industry as a clean alternative energy source...(read more)

Afternoon Take: Markey Cites New Report to Call For Nuclear Moratorium

The fallout of the continuing crisis at Japan's Fukushima power plant has Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., ...(read more)

NERC CIPs: Latest updates on V.4 & 5 (and sympathy for folks building them)

A few weeks ago I attempted to impact some wisdom on the status of the CIPs...(read more)

NERC CIPs: Looking at Version 4 Red-lines and Headlines in early 2011

Back in December 2009, the CIP-002 version 4 draft was called "Cyber Security-BES Cyber System Categorization...(read more)

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WizSG™

WizSG ~ SmartGrid Cyber Security Solution

While the implementation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Distribution Automation, Transmission Automation, and Distributed Generation brings significant benefits to society, these new smart grid functions will leverage an Information Technology infrastructure in order to deliver these new capabilities. Automation within the grid will require the development of new applications and technologies designed deliver the benefits of a smarter grid.

Automation is inherently vulnerable to cyber security risks, which if unmanaged provide a significant risk to the modern grid.

The risk lies in the fact that applications and technologies will be used to control physical grid elements, in order to provide automated responses to conditions on the power system. As such these responses represent real activities which if improperly operated could result in; loss of personally identifiable information, instability in the sustainability of the grid, and the ability to operate the system in safe reliable manner.

Wiznucleus has developed WizSG™, a software platform designed to identify cyber security weaknesses and remediation plans in various parts of the smart grid infrastructure, delivering the ability to monitor cyber security posture across multiple smart grid elements. This is done by leveraging frameworks, security considerations, and requirements that have been used to put together overall best practice architecture as designed by the NIST CSCTG and ASAP-SG.

Source: EPRI

The product takes into account technical standards and protocols which provide utilities with the ability to assess risks to their Smart Grid components. Additionally, WizSG™ software tool takes into account guidance from NISTIR 7628 and NERC CIP, which illustrate best practices associated with the proper security management of a Smart Grid infrastructure.

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