Power Grid & Power Plant Cybersecurity by Kai London
Electricity infrastructure is being digitised and decentralised at the same time. Generation, transmission, distribution and a growing edge of distributed resources now share dependencies that no single operator controls. This field guide covers the whole chain — and the cyber resilience it now requires.
Available on Amazon.
What is inside
Generation and plant control
DCS, turbine and balance-of-plant systems, and the safety instrumentation that must remain independent.
Substations and protection
Relays, IEDs, station buses and the consequences of tampering with protection settings.
Control centre and SCADA
EMS and DMS exposure, operator trust in displays, and the integrity of the data decisions are made from.
DER, BESS and the edge
Inverters, storage and aggregated distributed resources — new devices, new owners, new dependencies.
Remote access and supply chain
OEM support routes, firmware provenance and the vendors common to many operators at once.
Resilience and restoration
Degraded operation, manual fallback and the sequencing that gets supply back safely.
Who it is for: utility OT security teams, protection and control engineers, generation plant managers, energy CISOs, and regulators and boards overseeing electricity resilience.
The grid does not fail politely. Design for degraded operation before you need it.
About the author
Professor Kai London — CISSP, CISM.
An internationally recognised cybersecurity executive, board advisor and Founder & CEO of Quantum AI Systems Security LLC, writing at the convergence of AI, governance and operational resilience. Honorary Professor and Researcher at UCL.