By Marlee Rosen, Rosen Associates 

Utility companies have not fully come to terms with how to protect their customers from the impacts of grid instability on mission-critical operations.

Utilities have evolved in our digital age where various types of attacks are present whether it be general hackers, the dangerous volley of viruses out there with worms and botnet attacks, and nation-state actors that have unlimited funding available to conduct espionage as they establish a covert presence on a sensitive network.

Unfortunately, experts are saying that cyber fraud is anticipated to spread across the country as more utilities deploy smart grid technology.