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Inter-Customer Sites Environment - #17

This environment captures requirements for communications between customer sites.  This is a relatively new environment, not widely deployed yet.

Typical Applications:  Management of micro-grids between customers.

Characteristics:  High security requirements because of data crossing organizational boundaries, but relatively few, simple messages.

Similar Environments: Similar to Inter-Control Center, but with much lower volumes and variety of data, and less potential impact on the grid.

Definition:  This environment is defined by the following requirements:

 


Communication and Information Requirements that Define this Environment

Configuration Requirements

  • Support interactions across widely distributed sites

Security Requirements

  • Provide Identity Establishment Service (you are who you say you are)
  • Provide Authorization Service for Access Control (resolving a policy-based access control decision to ensure authorized entities have appropriate access rights and authorized access is not denied)
  • Provide Information Integrity Service (data has not been subject to unauthorized changes or these unauthorized changes are detected)
  • Provide Confidentiality Service (only authorized access to information, protection against eavesdropping)
  • Provide Inter-Domain Security Service (support security requirements across organizational boundaries)
  • Provide Non-repudiation Service (cannot deny that interaction took place)
  • Provide Audit Service (responsible for producing records, which track security relevant events)
  • Provide Security Policy Service (concerned with the management of security policies)
  • Provide Firewall Transversal
  • Provide Privacy Service (the ability to ensure person information is not disclosed)
  • Provide User Profile and User Management (combination of several other security services)
  • Provide Security Protocol mapping (the ability to convert from one protocol to another)
  • Provide Security Discovery (the ability to determine what security services are available for use)

Data Management Requirements

  • Support extensive data validation procedures
  • Support frequent changes in types of data exchanged
  • Support management of data whose types can vary significantly in different implementations
  • Support specific standardized or de facto object models of data
  • Provide discovery service (discovering available services and their characteristics)
  • Provide conversion and protocol mapping
  • Support the management of data across organizational boundaries

 


Recommended Technologies

Energy Industry-Specific Technologies

    Utility Field Device Related Data Exchange Technologies

    Utility Control Center Related Data Management Technologies

Communications Industry Technologies

    Access Technologies

    IP-based Transport Protocols

    Link Layer and Physical Technologies

    Computer Systems Related Technologies

    General Internet and De Facto Data Management Technologies

    eCommerce Related Data Management Technologies

Security Technologies

    Policy and Framework Related Technologies

    General Security Technologies

    Media and Network Layer Technologies

    Application Layer Security Technologies

    XML Related Technologies

Network and Enterprise Management Technologies

    Network Management Technologies

Security Services

    Common Security Services

Network and System Management Services

Data Management Common Services

    Data Management Common Services

Common Platform Services

    Common Platform Services

Data Management Best Practices

    Data Management

Security Best Practices

    Security Frameworks and Policy Documents

Security Technology Documents

 


Alternative Technologies

    Utility Field Device Related Data Exchange Technologies

    Access Technologies

    Networking Technologies

    IP-based Transport Protocols

    Link Layer and Physical Technologies

    Wireless Technologies

    Virtual Private Networking Technologies

    Computer Systems Related Technologies

    General Internet and De Facto Data Management Technologies

 


Alternative Best Practices

    Security Frameworks and Policy Documents

    ISO/IEC Documents on Security Technologies

    Federal Documents on Security Technologies

    IETF Internet Requests for Comments (RFCs) on Security Technologies

    Other Security Technolog

 


Possible Technologies

    Utility Field Device Related Data Exchange Technologies

    Networking Technologies

    Wireless Technologies

 

 

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