According to published reports, one of the anticipated sessions at the upcoming Black Hat conference will show vulnerabilities within smart metering technologies that certain utilities are deploying to make the electricity grid more intelligent-- from energy production through consumption. The big question is whether the vulnerabilities would put utilities out of compliance with energy industry regulations regarding security. In the latest episode of the eIQcast, Ross Levanto asks eIQnetworks Product Evangelist John Linkous for a review of what we know about the vulnerabilities and the current state of security compliance within the energy industry.