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Network infrastructure in digital substations

A local area network is critical infrastructure in a digital substation. Experts in the area of relay protection and automatic as well as automated process control systems run into it with increasing frequency, while the number of questions such as, ‘How to design it?’, ‘How to maintain it?’, ‘How to evaluate its security and effectiveness?’ only increases.

SmartSec Europe 2016: Cyber-Security Strategies to Achieve Smart Grid Resilience

The exponential rate at which IT/OT integration is taking place calls for advanced approaches to utility cyber-security to ensure the resilience of smart infrastructures. And with senior management investment support at an all-time high, smart utility cyber-security leaders must step up to the challenge of driving the implementation of next generation cyber-security strategies, technologies, and processes. At the 3rd annual SmartSec Europe 2016 conference (November 29-30, 2016 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands), exhibition and networking forum, 120+ utility IT and OT cyber-security leaders come tog

Temperature measurements via GOOSE

German company Ziehl presented the new version of temperature sensor TR1200 - now it supports GOOSE-messaging.

SEL Completes On-Site Testing of First Substation Software-Defined Network

To meet the needs of both operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) networks, SDN is emerging as a superior solution.

IEC 61580 training in Rome, Italy

IEC 61850 standard is becoming more and more widespread in electric power industry today. А great number of installations and R&D activities involve application of IEC 61850 and many vendors offer IEC 61850 compliant products with less alternatives every other day. These circumstances call for the improvement of engineers’ competence. We are glad to invite engineers of your company to participate in the unique 5-day training course – Development, design, commissioning and maintenance of IEC 61850 compliant systems, which will take place in Rome (Italy) on November 7-11, 2016.

IEC 61850 Europe 2016: 3-day conference, exhibition and networking forum

The 3rd Annual IEC 61850 Europe 2016 conference, exhibition and networking forum draws together 150+ IEC 61850 experts and decision makers from across the European utility sector.

Fault recording in digital substations

Using which IEC 61850 services fault recorders in digital substations must acquire data? How the architecture of fault recording systems must change in digital substation? Experts talk.

Robots inspect substations in China

A robot checks a 500 kV substation in Dongtai, southeast China's Fujian province.

List of default passwords for widespread SCADA systems

Russian security researchers - SCADA Strangelove team - have published a list of ICS/SCADA manufacturers that put their clients at risk by providing equipment with weak default access credentials.

SIPROTEC 4 and SIPROTEC Compact with EN100 module may be vulnerable to cyberattacks

SIPROTEC 4 and SIPROTEC Compact users are recommended to check EN100 module firmware.

Cisco Manages to Ship Servers with the Wrong Default Password for Seven Weeks

Cisco, the biggest supplier of networking equipment in the world, has managed to ship servers for seven entire weeks without noticing that they had a different default password for the admin account.

Transmission of data structures in a GOOSE message

GOOSE-messaging has been covered a lot in many technical papers and to add anything valuable to the subject is rather difficult. But we will try. And functional constrained data will help us with that.

XML Marker makes browsing SCL files easier

XML Marker - an alternative to simple text editing tools for overview of SCL files.