Securing the Smart Grid with HSMs - White Paper

The smart grid is a major effort to modernize an energy infrastructure that remained largely unchanged over the past several decades. The smart grid creates a network of links between customers and utility companies that provides increased insight into and management of energy consumption, cost, and workload across the entire energy grid. At a time when energy utilities play an increasingly important part of our everyday lives, smart grid technologies introduce new security challenges that must be addressed as part of the transformation.