A Test bed dedicated to the Study of Vulnerabilities in IEC 61850 Power Utility Automation Networks

Kabir-Querrec, Maëlle; Mocanu, Stéphane; Thiriet, Jean-Marc; Savary, Eric

doi:10.1109/etfa.2016.7733644

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“…In this work, by injecting attack traffic, their implementation resulted in a DoS attack by denying the authorized publisher’s traffic access to the subscriber. Similarly, an experimental testbed of cyberattack against substation protection was implemented in [ 26 ].…”

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Vulnerability and Impact Analysis of the IEC 61850 GOOSE Protocol in the Smart Grid

Reda

Ray

Peidaee

et al. 2021

Sensors

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IEC 61850 is one of the most prominent communication standards adopted by the smart grid community due to its high scalability, multi-vendor interoperability, and support for several input/output devices. Generic Object-Oriented Substation Events (GOOSE), which is a widely used communication protocol defined in IEC 61850, provides reliable and fast transmission of events for the electrical substation system. This paper investigates the security vulnerabilities of this protocol and analyzes the potential impact on the smart grid by rigorously analyzing the security of the GOOSE protocol using an automated process and identifying vulnerabilities in the context of smart grid communication. The vulnerabilities are tested using a real-time simulation and industry standard hardware-in-the-loop emulation. An in-depth experimental analysis is performed to demonstrate and verify the security weakness of the GOOSE publish-subscribe protocol towards the substation protection within the smart grid setup. It is observed that an adversary who might have familiarity with the substation network architecture can create falsified attack scenarios that can affect the physical operation of the power system. Extensive experiments using the real-time testbed validate the theoretical analysis, and the obtained experimental results prove that the GOOSE-based IEC 61850 compliant substation system is vulnerable to attacks from malicious intruders.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vulnerability and Impact Analysis of the IEC 61850 GOOSE Protocol in the Smart Grid

Reda

Ray

Peidaee

et al. 2021

Sensors

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“…Moreover, as we intend to test attacks scenarios it is clearly impossible to experiment on a real electrical substation. Using the available material of our SCADA cybersecurity lab G-ICS [7], we built a small substation automation prototype connected to a simulated electrical grid using our hardware-in-the-loop simulation system [8].…”

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Real-Time Performance and Security of IEC 61850 Process Bus Communications

Mocanu

Thiriet

2021

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Modern power-network communications are based on the IEC 61850 series standards. In this paper, we investigate the real-time performance and the vulnerabilities and attack scenarios at the sensor level communication networks more precisely on Sampled Measured Value protocol. The approach jointly evaluates the communication protocol, network topology and impact on electrical protection functions. We test the practical feasibility of the attacks on an experimental workbench using real devices in a hardware-in-the-loop setup. The tests are conducted on the two high-availability automation networks currently used in IEC 61850 process bus communications: Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) and High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR)

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“…Taking the advantages from both hardware and simulator based testbeds, the hybrid Smart Grid testbed provides a trade-off option by implementing part of components in physical hardware devices, while others are simulated using simulators. The architecture of the hybrid Smart Grid testbed varies with its research focus, where typical examples are the ScorePlus testbed [30], the Network Intrusion Detection System [31] and GreEn-ER1 Industrial Control Systems Sandbox testbed [32].…”

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A Versatile Software Defined Smart Grid Testbed: Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Real-Time Co-Evaluation of ICT Systems and Power Systems

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In Smart Grid, the integration of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) systems and power systems has enabled real-time services and distributed controls, while the fusion of technologies necessitates a profound and versatile platform for the interdisciplinary research and evaluation. This article introduces a Software Defined Smart Grid testbed architecture, which integrates real-world wireless communication systems and Artificial Intelligence algorithms to provide a re-configurable framework to meet different real-time Smart Grid testbed design requirements. Through prototyping and experiments, the architecture shows great potential in addressing co-evaluation challenges of ICT systems and power systems, as well as supporting real-time Smart Grid evaluations. INDEX TERMS Artificial intelligence (AI), coevaluation, information and communications system, smart grid, software defined radio, testbed, wireless communications.

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A Test bed dedicated to the Study of Vulnerabilities in IEC 61850 Power Utility Automation Networks

Cited by 20 publications

References 6 publications

Vulnerability and Impact Analysis of the IEC 61850 GOOSE Protocol in the Smart Grid

Vulnerability and Impact Analysis of the IEC 61850 GOOSE Protocol in the Smart Grid

Real-Time Performance and Security of IEC 61850 Process Bus Communications

A Versatile Software Defined Smart Grid Testbed: Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Real-Time Co-Evaluation of ICT Systems and Power Systems

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