BS EN IEC 62351-8:2020

What is BS EN IEC 62351 ‑ 8 about?

BS EN IEC 62351 is a series on power systems management and associated information exchange. BS EN IEC 62351 ‑ 8 is applicable to facilitate role-based access control (RBAC) for power system management. RBAC assigns human users, automated systems, and software applications (collectively called "subjects" in this document) to specified "roles", and restricts their access to only those resources, which the security policies identify as necessary for their roles. Specifically, RBAC provides an alternative to the all-or-nothing super-user model in which all subjects have access to all data, including control commands. While BS EN IEC 62351 ‑ 8 defines a set of mandatory roles to be supported, the exchange format for defined specific or custom roles is also in the scope of BS EN IEC 62351 ‑ 8