Cybersecurity goes undercover to protect electric grid data
2-May-2023
Inspired by one of the mysteries of human perception, an ORNL researcher invented a new way to hide sensitive electric grid information from cyberattack: Within a constantly-changing color palette.
Peter Fuhr, who heads the Grid Communications and Security group at ORNL, was intrigued by synesthesia. This lifelong condition causes some people to experience one sense through another, such as perceiving sounds as colors. Fuhr applied this concept to encrypting the “language” of grid management software into colors.
