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Enhancing Smart Grid Resilience: An Educational Approach to Smart Grid Cybersecurity Skill Gap Mitigation

Published:2024-04-15 Issue:8 Volume:17 Page:1876
ISSN:1996-1073
Container-title:Energies
language:en
Short-container-title:Energies

Author:

Pirta-Dreimane Rūta¹^ORCID,Romanovs Andrejs¹^ORCID,Bikovska Jana¹^ORCID,Pekša Jānis¹^ORCID,Vartiainen Tero²,Valliou Maria³^ORCID,Kamsamrong Jirapa⁴,Eltahawy Bahaa²

Affiliation:

1. Information Technology Institute, Riga Technical University, LV-1048 Rīga, Latvia

2. Computing Sciences Department, School of Technology and Innovations, University of Vaasa, FI-65200 Vaasa, Finland

3. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 157 73 Zografou, Greece

4. OFFIS—Institute for Information Technology, 26121 Oldenburg, Germany

Abstract

Cybersecurity competencies are critical in the smart grid ecosystem, considering its growing complexity and expanding utilization. The smart grid environment integrates different sensors, control systems, and communication networks, thus augmenting the potential attack vectors for cyber criminals. Therefore, interdisciplinary competencies are required from smart grid cybersecurity specialists. In the meantime, there is a lack of competence models that define the required skills, considering smart grid job profiles and the technological landscape. This paper aims to investigate the skill gaps and trends in smart grid cybersecurity and propose an educational approach to mitigate these gaps. The educational approach aims to provide guidance for competence-driven cybersecurity education programs for the design, execution, and evaluation of smart grids.

Funder

European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme

Publisher

MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/8/1876/pdf

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