Role of it in management at SCE

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON

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Modern Management and IT

Matthew Rodriguez

December 12, 2011


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Agenda

• Intro to Edison

• Changing landscape: Modern Landscape

• Changing concerns: Cyber Security

• Technology Areas @ SCE

• What Can Be Done

• Questions

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• Edison International, through its subsidiaries, is a generator and distributor of electric power and an investor in infrastructure and energy assets, including renewable energy.

• Southern California Edison (SCE) is one of the largest electric utilities in California, serving more than 14 million people in a 50,000 square-mile area of central, coastal and Southern California, excluding the City of Los Angeles and certain other cities.

• Edison Mission Group (EMG) is a holding company which acts through numerous subsidiaries to manage the competitive power generation business and other unregulated subsidiaries of Edison International.

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Changing landscape: Modern Business

• Technological systems are the essential backbone of modern business operations.

• More consumers are connected via technology

• Businesses without a digital footprint risk extinction

• A changing workforce means new management strategies (Generation X, Millennials, Gen Y)

• Management in modern business have a new responsibilities

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Increasing Use in Mobile Technology

• On Cyber Monday, 10.8% of people used a mobile device to visit a retailer’s site, up from 3.9% in 2010. (Source: IBM’s fourth annual Cyber Monday Benchmark, 2011)

• Sixty-five percent of mobile users said they used their mobile device to find a business to make an in-store purchase (Source: Google, 2011)

• Approximately 52% of smartphone users will use their device to research products, redeem coupons and use apps to assist in their holiday gift purchase (Source: Acquity Group, 2011)

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“Business can no longer afford a static Web strategy”

http://multichannelmerchant.com/ecommerce/news/cyber-monday-spending-increases-1129tpp9/

http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/2011/11/28/how-consumers-will-use-their-mobile-devices-during-the-holidays





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Changing Concerns: Cyber Security

• Number 1 growth area in Information Technology

• Cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated

• Modern Managers need to be as vigilant about information security as they are about operations

• Management today needs to understand security threats and work to ensure employees are prepared to defend the front line.

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Recent Developments in Cyber Security

New developments in threat environment have raised the importance of effective cyber security:

• Increase in sophistication and quantity of cyber attacks

• Current defenses not preventing system compromise

• Networks vacuumed on industrial-scale of valuable information resulting in loss of petabytes of information

• Most targeted firms and government organizations are not aware their systems have been compromised

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Growing Areas of Concern: Cyber Security

• In 2010, Internet Crime Complaint Center received the second-highest number of complaints since its inception.

• It reached a milestone in 2011 with its two-millionth complaint.

• On average it receives and processes 25,000 complaints per month.

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Internet Crime Complaint Center


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Forms of Cyber Attacks

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CybercrimeHacktivism

Cyber-EspionageCyber

Warfare

Cybercrime – Unauthorized computer penetration for immediate financial gain

Hacktivisim – Use of cyber attacks as a form of politically or ideologically motivated protest

Cyber Espionage – Unauthorized computer penetration to acquire sensitive or valuable information to gain competitive advantage.

Cyber Warfare – Use of cyber attacks to cause damage through severe disruption or damage of computer controlled systems.


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• Transmission/Distribution Operations - SCADA

• Real-time/Day Ahead Energy Market - Regulation

• Customer Information – Privacy

• R&D – Patents

• Investor Information – Market Advantage

• Personnel Information – Employee Privacy

• Business Operations – Transactional Integrity

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Technology Areas @ SCE

“It is management’s duty to be the frontline of defense using available technology and enforcement of company policy”


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What Can Be Done

Modern Managers need to:

• Be aware of the changing landscape of business operations, and consumer behavior, which are increasingly dependent on technology

• Be aware of emerging technological concerns that threaten business operations and data integrity.

• Understand the essential role technology plays in business, and the responsibility to safeguard that technology.

• Understand that technology is imperative to the success of any large company, and that cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated.

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Thank You.

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