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ISTS Information Pamphlet
The Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIP) was a $7.5M, 5-year project funded by the National Science Foundation's Cyber Trust initiative. Led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and involving researchers at Dartmouth, Cornell, and Washington State University, TCIP aimed to improve the way the power grid cyber infrastructure is built and maintained, making it more secure, reliable and safe. In some sense, the power grid is the infrastructure that drives all other infrastructures---but it is controlled by a cyber infrastructure that is brittle, unreliable, and distributed across harsh environment conditions and heterogeneous trust environments. The research focused on four technical thrust areas: the computing base, data collection and control, wide-area information exchange, and quantitative validation. Professor Sean Smith led the TCIP focus area "Secure and Reliable Computing Base" which explored ways to "combine hardware, firmware, and software techniques to provide low-overhead, robust protection against both accidental (non-malicious) and malicious faults, and hence to enhance the trustworthiness of the power grid." This built on Professor Smith's previous Dartmouth research and prior industrial experience in hardware techniques for trusted computing.
In 2010, the TCIP project was extended with funding from the Department of Energy and contributions from the Department of Homeland Security, and the NSF. The funding is in the form of a five-year $18.8 million grant. The research team is still led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and includes the same academic partners.
