Building tools to protect America´s power grid
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By August Schiess, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PULLMAN, Wash. - When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in late September, it devastated the island`s power grid - and estimates suggest residents won`t have full power again until mid-December. Imagine a similar grid outage hit your community. Puerto Rico`s struggle to recover from the damage in the wake of Hurricane Maria without electricity reminds us of how important it is to keep it safe and secure, not only from natural disasters, but from malicious attackers and system failures. Measuring security, reliability, vulnerability Adam Hahn deeply understands this...