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NERC Nov 2011 Reliability Report
‣ Decrease in Reserve Margins in some areas
‣ Existing and proposed environmental
regulations may significantly affect reliability
‣ Increasing interdependency between gas and
electricity
‣ Variable generation
‣ Demand-side management
‣ Transmission growth
Cyber Warfare
‣ The US has acknowledged developing cyber
weapons, and just admitted using them (1).
‣ Cyber weapons don’t usually self-destruct.
Adversary can recover and re-use.
‣ Since the US attacked Iran’s Nuclear Program
(1), does that put our critical infrastructure at
risk of counter-attack?
‣ Most vulnerable: popular operating systems,
IP, Ethernet.
(1) New York Times, 6/1/2012
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