Malware detection tech exposes threats using power grids

PFP Cybersecurity, a security startup, has come up with novel way to spot cyberattacks against power and manufacturing plants. By using trends in power consumption activity, rather than standard malware detection, the technology successfully spotted Stuxnetin an experimental network before the malware went into a disastrous spree.

PFP Cybersecurity, which officially launches on Monday and was originally funded by DARPA, the Defence Department, and the Department of Homeland Security, basically establishes the baseline power consumption of ICS/SCADA equipment such as programmable logic controllers
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