Scenarios for collaborative preparedness exercises
Challenge and objective
- Many smaller DSOs rely heavily on their IT/OT vendors to handle cyber incidents.
- We have investigated which factors may contribute to making it easier to include vendors in preparedness exercises.
Work performed
- We have interviewed stakeholders, both DSOs and their vendors.
- We have designed a number of incident response exercises that include DSOs and their vendors.
- We have performed a trial run of such an exercise with one DSO and two vendors.
Significant results
- We have provided specific guidance on how to include vendors in preparedness exercises.
- We have developed 7 reusable attack scenarios that can be used for preparedness exercises.
Impact for distribution system innovation
- DSOs can include vendors in preparedness exercises in a meaningful way.
- Name
- Oddbjørn Gjerde
- Title
- WP2 Lead
- Organization
- SINTEF Energi AS
Reference in CINELDI
- M. Langås, S. Løfqvist, B. Katt, T. Haugan, M.G. Jaatun: "With a Little Help from Your Friends: Collaboration with Vendors During Smart Grid Incident Response Exercises", 2021 European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 46–53.
