To ensure the power supply of the Winter Olympics, "clairvoyance" guards the power network security for 24 hours

On February 4, the curtain opened on the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, allowing the world's attention to focus on Beijing. Unlike many citizens who pay attention to the opening ceremony at home, in the State Grid Smart Grid Research Institute of Beijing Future Science City, more than 10 power protection personnel, including Ge Guangkai, director of the Security Attack and Defense and Monitoring Technology Research Office of the Power Grid Digital Technology Research Institute, are on duty at the Network Security Technology Analysis Center to monitor the network security situation in real time while paying attention to the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics. With the opening of the Winter Olympic Games, these "clairvoyances" who ensure the network security of the Winter Olympic power supply network will be on duty day and night to discover and resolve network risks for the Winter Olympic power supply at any time.

The personnel of the Institute are on duty at the Safety Center. Wang Fei photographed

Walking into the security center, the first thing that catches your eye are two huge display screens. "This is the State Grid Corporation's network security situational awareness platform, which can display the external network security threats and internal virus situation of the power grid in real time through multi-dimensional and visual methods." Ge Guangkai introduced. The reporter saw that among the external security threats, tens of thousands of threat attacks were received on the same day, and the numbers continued to jump upwards. "With the start of the Winter Olympics, there may be more attacks, and doing a good job of attack monitoring and blocking is a key point of our support work." Ge Guangkai introduced.

The reporter noted that with the rising number of attacks, at the bottom of the large screen, the specific information of the attack is presented in real time, and sometimes the attack information will pop out several times in a second. This is difficult for a security monitoring technology expert like Ge Guangkai. "Our platform uses data intelligent monitoring and analysis technology, which can realize intelligent classification, classification and pre-judgment of network attacks, assist the on-duty personnel to quickly screen out which attacks are truly threatening, and synchronize them to other support units at the first time, so that they can prevent and resolve risks in advance; at the same time, technical personnel also rely on self-developed intelligent collaborative combat equipment and information base to carry out the image filing and traceability countermeasures of attackers." Over the years, the Network Security Technology Analysis Center has successfully analyzed and judged a number of threatening and organized network attacks for many times, helping power grid companies to resolve risks in advance and effectively avoiding power supply accidents caused by network attacks.

In addition to conducting cyber attack monitoring, threat intelligence gathering is also an important means of preventing cybersecurity risks. Ge Guangkai told reporters that the Institute of Intellectual Research relies on multi-source aggregation intelligence aggregation and analysis technology to independently develop a power monitoring system threat intelligence platform, every day will be on a global scale to capture the network security intelligence related to the Winter Olympic power supply, through the system intelligent judgment, manual verification and other links, the valuable intelligence information will be identified, released to the power grid security unit, before hackers, eliminate risks, prevent problems before they occur.

In order to provide strong technical support for the power supply of the Winter Olympics, the State Grid Intellectual Research Institute set up a special class for the winter Olympics support work and opened the "7 * 24 hours" working mode. "We divided the staff into morning and evening shifts to ensure that they were manned 24 hours a day." Ge Guangkai introduced. In addition to the headquarters of the hospital, the State Grid Intellectual Research Institute has dispatched a number of power protection personnel to the headquarters of the State Grid Corporation, the North China Branch, the Beijing Company, the Jibei Company and other key units to participate in the on-site support work, contributing to the normal operation of the State Grid Corporation's Winter Olympic power protection network security and command system, and successfully completing the winter Olympic power supply guarantee task.