Protecting the electric power infrastructure with a mobile agent monitoring and analysis system

This work presents the electric power mobile agent system (EPMAS) to support secure communications interface, update security policy, collect and audit IDS related data and provide status reports across domains in the electric power grid. The agents could support the EPRI's automated critical incident event reporter (ACIER). The concept of a critical network infrastructure analysis center to provide better coordination and dissemination of information, improve incident prevention and detection, database analysis and real time network monitoring and surveillance systems is analyzed. Multiple type of mobile monitoring system analysis is studied and the managed resources at the power plant and transmission facilities level are outlined.