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primary objective of this Scoping Study is the assessment of the financial and
societal costs of implementing security measures. Financial costs include the
costs for developing security policies and implementing security countermeasure
technologies. Societal costs include the impact of security policies and
technologies on the efficiency of personnel and systems.
A second objective of this Scoping Study is twofold: (a) to assess whether or
not the Internet can provide adequate security for the different utility
control center functions, including power operations and market operations; and
(b) to identify viable alternatives to the Internet for this purpose. This
assessment would include determining what alternative communication means are
possible and what the impact would be to move functions using the Internet to
using these alternative communications methods. As a part of this assessment,
the communication security needs of different functions would be addressed,
along with possible alternative communications methods, such as privately owned
media, private access to media owned by telecommunications providers, and
secure access to more public media. The assessment methodology does not
directly analyze the use of alternative media, but discusses the mechanisms for
analysis. Specific recommendations may be developed as part of future work.”
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