As we close out 2016 and look forward to 2017, it seems appropriate to pause a moment and provide some grid security predictions for the new year. Predictions based on trends, insight, and understanding can arm security programs with the knowledge needed to test policies, exercise physical protection systems, and allocate corporate funds for resources.

Physical security anxieties for the power grid are not going away anytime soon, so let’s start to “read the writing on the walls” and get ahead of this critical topic.