TY - GEN
T1 - Power system infrastructure security and defense
AU - Amin, Massoud
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - The vulnerabilities of the electricity infrastructure causing cascading blackouts are discussed. Virtually every crucial economic and social function depends on the secure, reliable operation of energy, telecommunications, transportation, financial and other infrastructures. The potential ramifications of network failures were never greater as the transportation, telecommunications, oil and gas, banking and finance and other infrastructures depend on the continental power grid to energize and control their operations. The sources of vulnerability include natural diasters, equipment failures, human errors or deliberate sabotage and attacks.
AB - The vulnerabilities of the electricity infrastructure causing cascading blackouts are discussed. Virtually every crucial economic and social function depends on the secure, reliable operation of energy, telecommunications, transportation, financial and other infrastructures. The potential ramifications of network failures were never greater as the transportation, telecommunications, oil and gas, banking and finance and other infrastructures depend on the continental power grid to energize and control their operations. The sources of vulnerability include natural diasters, equipment failures, human errors or deliberate sabotage and attacks.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:13244251286
SN - 0780384652
SN - 9780780384651
T3 - 2004 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting
SP - 7
EP - 8
BT - 2004 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting
T2 - 2004 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting
Y2 - 6 June 2004 through 10 June 2004
ER -