Top Innovators
Mansur Mohammed and Carl Young represent the Cybersecurity Simulation in Metaverse team at Avangrid.
PUF's Lori Burkhart: Describe the innovation that led to your team winning the Lewis Latimer Top Innovator Award for Design, how it works, and its benefits to Avangrid.
Carl Young: This innovation is about a simulation in the metaverse, simulating cybersecurity events, and how we can react to them. For this innovation we created three virtual meta worlds, an electrical substation, the emergency communications center or ECC, and a cybersecurity collaboration meeting room. The latter is an event room for us to operate out of, while we're dealing with a cybersecurity attack.
The intent was to simulate, in a safe environment, a cybersecurity event occurring, which impacts a substation. It triggers physical damage to that substation. Then how do we handle and react to that?
How do our different teams mobilize under our incident command structure to safely and securely, isolate and minimize that damage, and then restore and recover the electric operations back to normal activity? That is the purpose of simulation, bringing those teams together, our cyber, electric operations, and emergency preparedness teams, and with our incident command structure, dealing with an event such as a cyberattack.
PUF: Mansur, what was your role in the innovation's development?