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 Smart grid (smart grid) technology opens the possibility of energy conservation and the efficient operation of the door to the world. However, hackers also created New York Yankees Hatsthe Smart Grid a huge opportunity.

     FYRM Associates Tony Flick the person responsible for the emerging smart grid and PCI DSS security standards for comparison. PCI DSS goal is to protect payment card.

     Flick think this is a good thing. He said the American National Standards Institute (National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST) to set the PCI DSS is the lack of the rule because they are very vague, and allows industry a custom policy. This creates a configuration of uncertainty, and lack of protective measures and other issues of compliance under the implementation of that scenario.

     Flick said: "I'm not saying (PCI DSS) is a failure - there is no better than any security measures - but at the same time, there are on well-founded criticism of this standard. "

     Utility companies have began to use electricity and Internet connectivity measurement equipment, and collection of household and commercial electricity consumption. Connected to such equipment and substations, so that utility companies to more effectively transfer power. Purpose is to pass more closely monitor energy consumption and reduce costs, save energy.