Appropriate security measures for smart grids: Guidelines to assess the sophistication of security measures implementation (contributor)

This document describes a set of security measures which are considered to be appropriate for smart grids. The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) issued this report to assist the Member States and smart grid stakeholders in providing a framework/measurement tool that could be used for:

• Aligning the varying levels of security and resilience of the market operators with a consistent minimum framework;
• Providing an indication of a minimum level of security and resilience in the Member States with regards to the smart grids, thereby avoiding the creation of the “weakest link”;
• Ensuring a minimum level of harmonization on security and resilience requirements for smart grids across Member States and thus reducing compliance and operational costs;
• Setting the basis for a minimum auditable framework of controls across Europe;
• Facilitating the establishment of common preparedness, recovery and response measures and pave the way for mutual aid assistance across operators during crisis;
• Contributing to achieve an adequate level of transparency in the internal market.