Cisco Secures the Smart Grid Perimeters - TMCnet's Smart Grid eNews

5/13/2013

Featured Articles » Announcing the Smart Grid 2012 Product of the Year Award Winners » With No 'Hanging Chads' on Powerlines, Florida Enjoys a Stronger, Smarter Grid » Landis+Gyr Gears Up for World's Largest Smart Grid Project in Japan » Schneider Electric Woos Consumers Where They Live    Sponsored By: M2M Evolution Conference & Expo – August 26-29, 2013 Mandalay Bay – Las Vegas, NV M2M Evolution highlights how M2M technologies, the Internet of Things and the wireless network combine to significantly improve business processes, minimize risk, and drive revenue. Join us in Las Vegas for this two track program focused on providing you with information on how M2M solves business problems across multiple industries and in nearly all business functional areas. Conference sessions will focus on the retail and energy verticals as well as applications in big data, security and logistic functions (including transportation, fleet management and demand response). Members of the M2M ecosystem, including wireless carriers, application providers, platform companies, and device manufacturers will discuss their roles in creating effective technologies and procedures that work to create an ecosystem for actionable data, information and efficiencies.   Top Stories » Ontario to Augment AMI with Smart Thermostats and Home Energy Gateways » California Awards $4M to Renewable Energy Researchers » California Center Receives $1.4M to Study Triple-Threat to US Grid » Alarm.com Acquires EnergyHub   From The Expert Corner May 07, 2013 Cisco Secures the Smart Grid Perimeters By Cheryl Kaften , TMCnet Contributing Writer According to the Global Post, just last week, the U.S. military revealed that a hacker had infiltrated a government database for a period of several months, gaining access to detailed U.S. Army Corps of Engineers information regarding possible vulnerabilities in U.S. infrastructure—including information on 79,000 dams and the estimated number of deaths if a given dam failed. As hacking becomes the latest form of terrorist attack, U.S. utilities are sitting up and taking notice. The core mission of utilities, as well as their regulatory mandate, is to provide safe and reliable power. With that in mind, this week, Silicon Valley-based Cisco Systems Inc., a provider of utility network hardware, announced expanded solutions and services to help utilities enhance grid operations with greater levels of automation and security.  Read More    Featured Videos Alcatel-Lucent OG&E Smart Grid Revolutionizes Network Control    Featured Resources » IBM SmartCloud Social Collaboration for Government » IBM SmartCloud Engage Security » How to Get a Return on Knowledge in a Big Data World   Featured Channels » Smart Grid » Green Technology   Visit smart-grid.tmcnet.com for the Latest Smart-Grid News and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit Smart-Grid Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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