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Stanley Klein
Stanley A. Klein holds B.E.S and M.S.E degrees in Electrical Engineering
and a D.Sc. in Operations Research. He is a versatile consultant and
task/project leader in computers, communications, and management
science. His current technical areas include information security for
electric power and free/open source software for business applications.
He has been an author, lecturer, and panelist on technical and economic
issues in a variety of areas, and has appeared numerous times as a
panelist or featured speaker at meetings and conference sessions
addressing issues of information security in electric power systems or
information technology issues in the electric power industry
restructuring. He has over 40 years experience in systems engineering,
software engineering, requirements analysis, modeling and simulation,
conceptual design, data communications protocol standards, and
information security for a wide range of commercial and government
applications. Between 1967 and 1995 he was employed at Computer
Sciences Corporation (CSC) and at another company later acquired by
CSC. He has developed and implemented models and tools using a variety
of computer languages, databases, and computer operating systems.
Dr. Klein's experience with electric power system Supervisory Control
and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and control center issues extends back over
the past 28 years and his experience in information security extends
back over the past 20 years. Since 1996, Dr. Klein has been Principal
Consultant of Stan Klein Associates, LLC. In that capacity he has been
principal investigator on a Small Business Innovation Research project
to develop an open source toolkit for secure, next-generation, electric
power SCADA. He is also a principal in Open Secure Energy Control
Systems, LLC, recently formed to continue efforts on the toolkit.
In previous efforts, he prepared a guideline for the Electric Power
Research Institute on information security protection of electric power
transmission and distribution control systems and was a team member on a
government sponsored assessment of Year 2000 readiness of municipal
electric departments, rural electric cooperatives, and small investor
owned utilities. He self-published a report on information security
implications of the electric utility restructuring and contributed to a
1996 Navy study of information security in electric utility control
systems (that was used as input to early efforts on critical
infrastructure protection).
In addition to these efforts Dr. Klein has maintained active involvement
in a variety of professional society and standards committee activities
relevant to both SCADA protocols and their information security
protection. He is an active participant and leader in committees of the
IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES), including active membership in the
Control Center Subcommittee, Co-Vice-Chair of the Power System
Communications Committee, and PES representative on the IEEE-USA
Committee on Communications and Information Policy (where he drafted the
position statement on information security for electric power). He is
also an active member of International Electrotechnical Commission
Technical Committee 57 Working Group 15 (on power grid cybersecurity)
and of the North American Electric Reliability Council's Control System
Security Working Group.
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