A fresh new year is an opportunity to reflect on the path recently traveled, and to strategize on how to navigate the road in front of us. Physical security anxieties for the power grid are not going away anytime soon, so lets start to read the writing on the walls and get ahead of this critical topic. As new substations are built and introduced into the bulk power system, security protections will be implemented as a forethought and not a bolt on after the fact.”]