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EU SPARKS Stakeholder Workshop 2015

31.03.2015
SPARKS Highlights the Smart Grid Cybersecurity Threat at their 2nd Stakeholder Workshop

On Wednesday 25th March 2015, the SPARKS project held its 2nd Stakeholder Workshop at the EMC2 Centre of Excellence and Nimbus Microgrid in Cork, Ireland. Stakeholders from different smart grid sectors attended, including Distribution System Operators, equipment and solutions providers, research institutions, and academia. The major goal of the workshop was to highlight to stakeholders the serious nature of the cybersecurity threat to smart grid. In addition, the consortium presented their response to this threat.

The workshop concluded with presentations from projects that are related to SPARKS: the EU-funded HyRiM project, coordinated by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, is tasked with investigating novel risk metrics for interconnected utility networks, and measuring the potential impact of cascading effects.

The aim of this activity is to identify security gaps in current and future smart grid deployments. Security technologies will be developed to address these gaps, which will be evaluated on a number of testbeds in the project.

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  • SPARKS Homepage