Cyber-Physical Situational Awareness Challenges and Opportunities in a Modern Smart Grid

In the modern power system, holistic cyber-physical situational awareness is required for grid operators and stakeholders to coordinate and respond to challenges. Traditionally IT departments have monitored cyber activity and grid operators have monitored physically systems completely independently from one another. Cyber activity can now directly impact physical grid operations and independent monitoring is insufficient to responds to threats facing the power grid. Sophisticated cyber monitoring techniques must be combined with fine-grained, multimodal power system sensing using state-of-the-art analysis to provide an integrated perspective in real-time as events occur.