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• Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
  The EPRI ICT program addresses these challenges by conducting research in the following functional research areas:
  
  • Interoperability: The research accelerates the industry's migration toward interoperability by making technical contributions to standards development efforts, providing training to utilities, developing reference implementations, organizing interoperability tests of developing standards, and collaborating with utilities on the demonstrations of emerging standards.
  • Telecommunications: The research provides leadership in communications standards development, provides tracking and analysis of communications technologies, develops the tools and techniques to effectively plan and design communications networks, and conducts laboratory and field tests to evaluate the performance of evolving and emerging technologies.
  • Data-Centricity: This research leads effort to an enterprise-wide extensible data model, understanding that specific applications will come and go while the data model remains constant. Data, not applications, are at the core of the enterprise, and they are valuable and versatile assets. Ultimately, the goal of data-centrism is to enable data to deliver maximum business value, improve operational outcomes, and facilitate innovation through data-driven insight.
  
  For additional information click on the above Program Name.
  
  
• Cyber Security for Energy Delivery and Customer Solutions
  Cyber security has become a critical priority for electric utilities, which are increasingly dependent on information technology and telecommunication infrastructure to ensure the reliability and security of the electric grid. Specifically, measures to ensure cyber security must be designed and implemented to protect the electric grid from attacks by terrorists and hackers, and to strengthen grid resilience against natural disasters and inadvertent threats, such as equipment failures and user errors.
  
  EPRI's Cyber Security Program focuses on addressing the emerging threats to an interconnected electric sector through multidisciplinary, collaborative research on cyber security technologies, standards, and business processes.
• EPRI's Cyber Security Program can provide the following benefits to members and the public:
  
  • A better awareness of industry and government collaborative efforts, where members can "plug in" to current activities.
  • Techniques for assessing and monitoring risk.
  • Tools and metrics to better assess security posture and return on investment.
  • Practical approaches to mitigating the risk of operating legacy systems.
  • Early identification of security gaps through laboratory assessments of security technologies.
  • Technologies that support the management of cyber incidents and increase the cyber security and resiliency of the grid.
• For additional information click on the above Program Name or contact: Chuck Wentzel 618.320.0011.