The smart grid market is expected to grow from $5.6 billion last year to $9 billion by 2015. Utilities have a much smaller threshold for risk than they used to, says PGE cyber security director Travis Anderson. PGE has deployed firewalls, anti-malware, vulnerability management, log management and monitoring, and many other technologies you’d expect — and they instilled the processes they needed to manage it all over the years. The utility deployed 800,000 smart meters across a 4,000-square-mile service area.”]