A consortium led by the Georgia Tech Research Institute has been awarded a $5 million grant from the Energy Department to develop, validate and demonstrate a tool for detecting cyber attacks in utility and power grid systems. The institute’s Cyber Technology and Information Systems Laboratory will work on the project in cooperation with the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s National Electric Energy Testing, Research and Applications Center and the Strategic Energy Institute, GTRI said Dec. 19. “(Utilities and energy delivery systems) provide distribution over a large geographic area and are composed of disparate components, which must work … Continue reading Georgia Tech Awarded DOE Smart Grid Security Project