Cybersecurity protection for power grid control infrastructures

Jarmakiewicz, Jacek; Parobczak, Krzysztof; Maslanka, K.

doi:10.1016/j.ijcip.2017.07.002

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“…In modern smart grid systems disruptions in one system can lead to cascading effects in the entire power system [40]. The cyberattacks in grid can cause substantial losses.…”

Section: Smart Gridmentioning

confidence: 99%

Internet of Things for Sustainability: Perspectives in Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Future Trends

Salam

2019

Internet of Things

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In the sustainability IoT, the cybersecurity risks to things, sensors, and monitoring systems are distinct from the conventional networking systems in many aspects. The interaction of sustainability IoT with the physical world phenomena (e.g., weather, climate, water, and oceans) is mostly not found in the modern information technology systems. Accordingly, actuation, the ability of these devices to make changes in real world based on sensing and monitoring, requires special consideration in terms of privacy and security. Moreover, the energy efficiency, safety, power, performance requirements of these device distinguish them from conventional computers systems. In this chapter, the cybersecurity approaches towards sustainability IoT are discussed in detail. The sustainability IoT risk categorization, risk mitigation goals, and implementation aspects are analyzed. The openness paradox and data dichotomy between privacy and sharing is analyzed. Accordingly, the IoT technology and security standard developments activities are highlighted. The perspectives on opportunities and challenges in IoT for sustainability are given. Finally, the chapter concludes with a discussion of sustainability IoT cybersecurity case studies.

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“…In modern smart grid systems disruptions in one system can lead to cascading effects in the entire power system [40]. The cyberattacks in grid can cause substantial losses.…”

Section: Smart Gridmentioning

confidence: 99%

Internet of Things for Sustainability: Perspectives in Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Future Trends

Salam

2019

Internet of Things

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“…The role of communication standards is important, as shown in a paper that provides a technical overview and benefits of the popular IEC 61850 standard for substation automation [25]. Jarmakiewicz et al [26] describe a cybersecurity protection approach for power grid control systems. The paper also discusses the verification process of the functionality provided by an implemented cybersecurity system.…”

Section: Essential Power System Functions At Risk From Cyberattacks Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the Impact of Cybersecurity Attacks on Power Systems

Dagoumas

2019

Energies

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Cybersecurity is an emerging challenge for power systems, as it strongly affects their reliability and the whole energy system cost. The paper uses several Unit Commitments (UC) models, applying different methods to tackle renewables’ uncertainty. The selected power system is IEEE RTS 96. The UC models are used to assess the impact of different cybersecurity threats. The focus is to assess their impact on the total operating cost and the power grid adequacy to handle them. The comparison between the UC models shows that more robust UC models lead to higher total operating costs. The cost, unit dispatching, and energy mix evolution have a non-linear trend, depending on the power system characteristics and the cyberattacks types. However, the paper provides evidence of considerable price signals in the case of the examined cyberattacks. Each Transmission System Operator (TSO) should examine combinations of cyberattacks and operating conditions to identify crucial cases for system stability and power system cost operation. The applied methodology would also require substantial developments or supplementary approaches to assess cyberthreats at the distribution level.

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“…Similar monitoring system for protecting SCADA communication in power grid was proposed by Jarmakiewicz et al (2017) where the authors implemented SCADA probes observing IEC 104 and IEC 61850 communication. Protection includes two phases: training and detection.…”

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Increasing Visibility of IEC 104 Communication in the Smart Grid

Matoušek¹,

Ryšavý²,

Gregr³

2019

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Energy systems like smart grids are part of critical infrastructure and their interruption or blackout may have fatal consequences on energy production, distribution, and eventually the life of individual people. In order to secure communication in Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and detect cyber attacks on smart grids, we need to increase visibility of ICS communication so that an operator can see what commands are sent between ICS devices. Security monitoring of ICS transmission requires (i) retrieving monitoring data from ICS packets, (ii) processing and analyzing extracted data, (iii) visualizing the ongoing communication to the operator. The proposed work presents a concept of ICS flow monitoring system that extracts meta data from ICS packet headers and creates ICS flow records similarly to Netflow/IPFIX system. ICS flows represent communication in the smart grid network that is further visualized using dashboard and communication charts. Unlike traditional monitoring approach that works with network and transport layer data only, we extend flow monitoring to application layer with focus on ICS protocols. The proposed approach is demonstrated on monitoring IEC 60870-5-104 communication.

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Cybersecurity protection for power grid control infrastructures

Cited by 30 publications

References 11 publications

Internet of Things for Sustainability: Perspectives in Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Future Trends

Internet of Things for Sustainability: Perspectives in Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Future Trends

Assessing the Impact of Cybersecurity Attacks on Power Systems

Increasing Visibility of IEC 104 Communication in the Smart Grid

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