Objective:

Submit a proposal for the identification of critical assets and cybernetic assets, which makes it easier for the agents of the sector to know their installed technological plant, classify their cybernetic assets and assets, so that the cyber vulnerability status is subsequently evaluated and take the necessary measures to keep your system at an operationally safe level.

Methodology:

Due to the advance of communications and technology systems, the implementation of these technological benefits to electric power systems has been promulgated over the last 18 years, covering the entire production chain of electric energy, that is, generation, transmission, distribution, commercialization and even in distributed generation projects, with the purpose of providing reliability, selectivity and centrally controlling the information and management of all electrical variables. Consequently, the research was built from functional modeling from the perspective of cyber-security and identifying the services, architectures and operational topologies of the electric power transmission system.

Results:

Previously in electrical systems, the only failures that could cause a loss of energy supply were those caused by atmospheric discharges, circuit overloads or failures in system assets such as conductors, transformers, switches, bushings, among others. Now, with the integration of communication networks in the energy systems, to these unforeseen are added cyber security problems such as information security, data integrity and access control for the manipulation of the system maneuvering devices electric.

Based on this new aspect that can cause failures and damage to the electrical infrastructure, it is necessary to know in detail the assets that may be affected and that in turn their malicious intervention can affect the electric power transmission system. For this reason, this document presents a proposal for the identification of critical assets and cyber assets, which makes it easier for sector agents to know their installed technology plant, classify their cyber assets and assets,

Conclusions:

In this document, a proposal for the identification of critical assets and cybernetic assets is presented, which makes it easier for the agents of the sector to know their installed technological plant, classify their cybernetic assets and assets, so that the state of cyber vulnerability is evaluated and may take the necessary measures to keep their system at an operationally safe level.