Securing the Smart Grid
Meeting the Security Challenges of Intelligent Power Grids
SAIC, Vektrel and Layer 7 offer:
An End-to-End Framework
Implement an end-to-end vision that
links energy infrastructure to IT to
business management and service
levels to improve efficiency and
customer satisfaction.
End-to-End Security
Ward off cyber attacks by ensuring
consistent, standards-based, grid-wide
trust relationships at all levels.
Successful Smart Grid implementation requires not only a comprehensive
vision, but a practical framework and consistent, end-to-end security.
The strategic goals of the US Smart Grid initiative support a vision of an intelligent national
power grid that can adaptively react to shifting energy demands in near real-time.
Implementing this vision requires addressing a broad range of challenges, including:
• Power generating, transmission and delivery infrastructure is too geographically
dispersed to be cost-effectively connected by a private network, and will thus remain
vulnerable to sophisticated cyber attacks over public networks.
• A multitude of vendors whose products and equipment lack common security standards.
Collectively, these issues combine to create a daunting security landscape. Energy utilities are
faced with implementing consistent, attack-hardened, grid-wide security with effective
central governance in this high threat environment. There is a clear and growing need to
ensure energy utilities can interact with distributed, intelligent grid assets in a secure manner
that is impervious to cyber attacks.
Smart Grid Framework
As utilities transition their infrastructure toward intelligent power grids, they face a growing
set of common challenges. There is an increasing need to address these challenges in a
practical, cost effective manner that accommodates diversity and supports the strategic goals
of energy utilities.
SAIC in conjunction with Vektrel is evolving a mature, nationwide Smart Grid framework
designed specifically to address the strategic and technical challenges of implementing
intelligent power grids. This initiative couples deep industry experience and expertise with
technical leadership and builds upon existing integrated energy infrastructure to address the
following issues:
• End-to-end, industry standard security
• Central security governance
• Security transparency in heterogeneous environments
• Intelligent Event Management and Demand Response
• Enhanced utility control of Smart Grid assets
Smart Grid Security
Tying this framework together securely will require establishing standards-based trust
relationships among and between each layer. Layer 7 Technologies is a key provider of
network and messaging security infrastructure products to the Smart Grid framework
initiative, delivering:
• A Standards-based Trust Model – based on PKI, and in combination with supporting
infrastructure, this model provides the kind of end-to-end encryption required to secure
Smart Grid providers with heterogeneous systems.
• Policy-driven Security and Governance – a centrally managed, policy based governance
solution manages and provides consistent security across key network, grid and
datacenter elements.
• Attack Hardening – ensures key elements of the security framework are hardened
against sophisticated attack scenarios originating from determined sources.
 Key Features
Secure Smart Grid Framework
Common Security Model
Transparency
Common Interaction Model
Standards Based Foundation
A platform and vendor independent security framework that seamlessly binds heterogeneous
grid elements under a “Common Security Model”
A framework that is “transparent” to heterogeneous, intelligent, grid-resident devices, as well
as datacenter-resident Automated Metering Infrastructure and Meter Data Management
Systems
A framework that provides a common, consistent model for secure Grid device and
datacenter system interaction, regardless of client capabilities or limitations
A framework fully based upon proven, powerful and forward-looking industry security
standards

About SAIC
As one of the world’s largest system integrators, SAIC has played a pivotal role in designing and deploying a
number of US Department of Defense projects, including the Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-
BE) infrastructure and Network-Centric Enterprise Service (NCES). SAIC’s Cyber Security testing lab is the largest in
the world, and has recently completed a DIACAP certification of the Secret Internet Protocol Routed Network
(SIPRNet) backbone – the largest classified global network in the Defense Department.

About Vektrel
Vektrel is an engineering solutions provider whose ongoing strategic leadership has proven essential in ensuring
Fortune 500 I.T. organizations successfully transition to service enabled, "composable" I.T. value delivery models.
Vektrel professionals have delivered some of the largest, most challenging and highly successful SOA / I.T.
Transformation and Enterprise solutions in the I.T. engineering industry. Vektrel has teamed with SAIC to provide
innovation, expertise and leading-edge technical solutions toward the design and implementation of the SAIC
Smart Grid framework.

About Layer 7
Layer 7 Technologies is a leading services governance vendor whose turnkey solutions feature sophisticated
runtime governance, agent-less Web services management and industry-leading XML security. Founded in 2003,
Layer 7’s products include the SecureSpan family of XML appliances, which help organizations address security,
visibility and governance issues. Layer 7 enables organizations to monitor, adapt and control their Web services, no
matter where they originate – in the enterprise or in the cloud.

To learn more about implementing a fully secured Smart Grid framework, contact:

• Paul F. Halpin, AVP of SAIC; paul.f.halpin@saic.com – www.saic.com

• Ted Barbusinski, Chief Architect, Enterprise/SOA Solutions of Vektrel; smartgrid@vektrel.com –
www.vektrel.com
• Adam Vincent, CTO – Public Sector of Layer 7 Technologies; avincent@gov.layer7tech.com –
www.layer7tech.com/smartgrid

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