event correlation applications for utilities

EnergySec 2014 SummitBrandon Dunlap

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United States Smart Meter Deployments

History

Source: Utility-Scale Smart Meter Deployments - Innovation Electricity Efficiency Institute of the Edison Foundation - 2013

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Of the 46M Smart Meters currently deployed in the US...

...three utilities are responsible for nearly a third of installed meters.

HP Enterprise Security is a key partner to 2 of these top 3 utilities.

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Planned Projects Through 2015

US Smart Meter Implementation Map

Source: Utility-Scale Smart Meter Deployments - Innovation Electricity Efficiency Institute of the Edison Foundation - 2013

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...the beginning of the Internet of Things

The Electric Grid is...

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The Data Deluge

A small municipal electric utility in Lakeland, Florida went from collecting 122,000 data points per month prior to their Smart Meter implementation to 90 Million data points per month following implementation…

...a 73,000% increase!

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“We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.”

Tim O’Reilly

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But we are constrained.

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Do More...With Less

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“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.”

Jeff Bezos

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What is INNOVATION?

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December 17, 1903

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Embrace the constraints

Many tools have multiple purposes

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“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.”

Clifford Stoll

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Turn Data Into Information

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Case Study

HP technology is currently used to run a Security Operations Center (SOC) for a very large smart meter implementation.

Correlating and tracking events around:• Power outage event correlation• Meter failures and tampering

Allowing event-driven integration with internal systems to reduce technician dispatch

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Using the tools effectively

All of this is accomplished with ArcSight:

• HP ArcSight Connector Appliance • HP ArcSight Logger• HP ArcSight Enterprise Security

Management (ESM)

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Summary

HP’s event correlation capabilities enable utilities to create customized Smart Meter event responses, increasing network visibility and reducing cost.

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Questions?