1. Lead in Agenda (Tracy Rolstad)
CIP-014 Background (Metcalf)
Compliance
Attack Methods (General)
Peak RC

3. CIP-014: How Did We Get Here?
Attack Ideas Available on the Internet
1/15/2013
Attacks on Critical Infrastructure Metcalf 4/16/2013 Arkansas 9/16/2013
“If someone decides to blast a transformer at its base as prepper Bryan Smith did, and the oil drains out, then the transformer either burns out catastrophically, or if the utility is lucky, a software routine notices the problem and shuts the substation (or at least the affected portion) down” (

4. >120 rounds7.62x39 mm, >51,000 gallons of oil
When seconds matter cops are only minutes away…

5. Things that make you go Hmmm…

6. Mk-80 Series Bomb Facts 500, 1000, 2000 lb bombs (Mk 82, 83, 84)
About 50% is HE
Not particularly large compared to a truck bomb
Cratering figures
Mk 84 (2000 lb)
50 ft wide by 36 ft deep

7. Blowing things up is easy!
2 Severe Bldg damage or collapse
3 Skin Penetrating Fragments

8. Station ~ 2500 ft by 1500 ft (truck bomb)

9. Care to Name These Events?
19 April 1995
Ryder Truck: Ammonium Nitrate
& Diesel…roughly 4,000 lbs of home
brew explosive
$652 million in damage, 169 dead
26 February 1993
Ryder Truck:  1300 to 1500 pounds of
nitrate-hydrogen gas
Created a hole 98 feet wide through
four levels of concrete.
$500 million in damage, 6 dead
15,000 ft/sec
Propagation speed

10. Final Analysis of the Threat
Can a bad person blow up/fault a substation?
YES!
All at once with a truck bomb? Yes
There are other methods equally effective
Said methods don’t go bang but do apply faults
How do you simulate it?
3 phase faults everywhere…just fault buses
PRC-023 data is likely relevant
No commsdelayed clearing20 plus cycles?
You might conclude that modeling relays is a good idea?!

11. Can we defeat a truck bomb?
Of course
You make them go some where else…a game of keep away

12. Love the Videos

13. Security on the “down low”

14. Over to Peak RC…