Khalyasmaa Alexandra
Associate professor of the Electrical Engineering Department of the Ural Power Engineering Institute, Ural Federal University, PhD in technical sciences.
Cybersecurity in the power industry
UrFUAbout the course
The course presents the principles of building and using digital substations, information and analytical systems, the vulnerabilities and threats in the field of information security in the power industry, the principles of building models and databases, database management systems and providing access to them.
The course also discusses the principles of using risk management, legislative, organizational and technical means of ensuring cybersecurity (cryptography, software and hardware) and the features of using machine learning in the power industry from the point of view of cybersecurity.
Course authors
Eroshenko Stanislav
Associate professor of the Electrical Engineering Department of the Ural Power Engineering Institute, Ural Federal University, PhD in technical sciences.
Matrenin Pavel
Senior Researcher of the Scientific Laboratory of Data Processing, Analysis and Visualization for Power Industry Applications, Electrical and Power Engineering Faculty, Novosibirsk State Technical University, PhD in technical sciences.
Course workload
Course duration: 12 weeks
Workload per week: 5–7 hours
Number of ECTS: 3 credits
Target audience
Graduate and postgraduate students, pursuing the degree in the fields related to the Fuel and Energy Sector and Applied Digital and Information Technologies.
Recommended entry requirements
Higher education
Upon completion of the course, you will be able to
- Apply principles of ensuring cybersecurity at the Fuel and Energy Sector facilities.
- Analyze the basic stages of the information processes in the power systems in order to reveal vulnerabilities in information protection.
- Identify, prevent threats and ensure the cybersecurity of the information systems at the industrial enterprises using the optimal protection methods.
- Use the main cryptographic, software and software-hardware means of ensuring cybersecurity.
- Design information systems for collecting, storing and intelligent data processing using the tools for detecting data anomalies and distortions.
Course outline
Digital transformation of the power industry
1.1. Digitization of the power industry
1.2. Data storage, transmission, processing and analysis in power industry information systems
Basic cybersecurity principles
2.1. Cybersecurity in the power industry
2.2. Features of cybersecurity ensuring in the power industry
2.3. Models and principles of data organization
2.4. Database management systems. Access control
2.5. Types of cyber threats at power facilities
3. Ensuring cybersecurity at power facilities
3.1. Methods of ensuring cybersecurity
3.2. Laws and regulations for cybersecurity
3.3. Organizational measures for ensuring cybersecurity at power facilities
3.4. Cryptographic cybersecurity techniques
3.5. Hardware and software cybersecurity tools, Part 1
3.6. Hardware and software cybersecurity tools, Part 2
3.7. Cybersecurity and machine learning