From Internet News:
Cisco today unveiled plans to expand its own smart grid push, with new efforts to help standardize technologies and build a vendor ecosystem for solution delivery. In combination with the enablement technologies, Cisco is now also gearing up smart grid security services and solutions in an effort to help secure the electrical system.
There’s a lot at stake in the market for smart grid solutions. Cisco has estimated the market to be worth as much as $20 billion a year. Security is also now top of mind as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now investigating a report into potential threats to the West Coast power grid.
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