Smart Grid architectures in Austria: an ICT security assessment of relevant pilot projects

ICT will be a cornerstone of future electricity provision, and therefore our power supply system will be affected by cyber security risks. The research project Smart Grid Security Guidance (SG)(2) aims at analyzing such risks and developing appropriate countermeasures. In a first step the ICT security aspects of Smart Grid pilot projects in Austria have been analyzed, for which their system architecture has been mapped to the Smart Grid Architecture Model, a European reference architecture for the validation of Smart Grid use cases. Thus, an ICT architecture model for Smart Grids in Austria can be defined as a basis for further security investigations within the ( SG) 2 project.