Researchers from FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have teamed up with four other universities and a utility company to help protect the nation’s power grid from cyber attacks.
“A cyber attack on any part of the nation’s power grid could leave millions of people without power, resulting in serious health and safety threats as well as a major economic blow. Working together, we hope to reduce the vulnerability of our power grid and ensure the security of our energy delivery systems for the future,” Osama Mohammed, professor at FIU, said.
The team’s goal is to protect hardware assets and to make security systems less susceptible to cyber attacks. The team also plans to produce a plan for reliable delivery of power if an attack were to occur.
“The researchers from the different universities are working together as part of the DoE Center for Securing Electric Energy Delivery Systems (SEEDS), made possible by a $12.2 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy, augmented by $3.1 million in matching funds from the research participants,” according to FIU News.
The FIU research group is also working with the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Carnegie Mellon University and Lehigh University.
