In the last issue of Utility Security Magazine, I mentioned a federal law that the United States has in place to combat attacks in the energy sector in my article on strategies to defeat copper theft in substations. In this article, I’m going to use the theft triangle to show how this law (and a similar one in Canada) can be used to deter substation attacks and intrusions.  This is how it works: in the theft triangle, there are three elements at play: motive, opportunity and rationalization. (This triangle is also called the fraud triangle. It’s versatile and can be adapted to most form…