Enhancing IEC 62351 to Improve Security for Energy Automation in Smart Grid Environments

Fries, Steffen; Hof, Hans-Joachim; Seewald, Maik

doi:10.1109/iciw.2010.28

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“…IEC 61850 has now been released to support more enhanced capabilities including a peer-to-peer communication mode for field devices [39]. It can be regarded as a successor to the DNP3 [29].…”

Section: ) Communication Protocols and Standardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyber Security and Privacy Issues in Smart Grids

Liu

Xiao

et al. 2012

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Abstract-Smart grid is a promising power delivery infrastructure integrated with communication and information technologies. Its bi-directional communication and electricity flow enable both utilities and customers to monitor, predict, and manage energy usage. It also advances energy and environmental sustainability through the integration of vast distributed energy resources. Deploying such a green electric system has enormous and far-reaching economic and social benefits. Nevertheless, increased interconnection and integration also introduce cybervulnerabilities into the grid. Failure to address these problems will hinder the modernization of the existing power system. In order to build a reliable smart grid, an overview of relevant cyber security and privacy issues is presented. Based on current literatures, several potential research fields are discussed at the end of this paper.

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Section: ) Communication Protocols and Standardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyber Security and Privacy Issues in Smart Grids

Liu

Xiao

et al. 2012

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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“…Regarding Integrity and Confidentiality, Table 1 reflects the well-known difference between control and office systems [2,12], consisting in that Integrity is paramount in control systems while Confidentiality has to be higher in administrative systems. This is due to the fact that faults cannot be later recovered without consequences in control systems.…”

Section: Smart Grid Ict Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This assumption is a weakness in the overall system design that may not hold in some Smart Grid Use Cases. A possible solution [12] would be the introduction of security sessions for MMS connections in IEC 62351. This proposed extension of the current standard would provide end-to-end security for new use cases in SG scenarios.…”

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confidence: 99%

Smart Grid ICT Research Lines out of the European Project INTEGRIS

Selga

Corral

Zaballos

et al. 2014

NPA

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The Smart Grid is an example of a cyber-physical system where the physical power grid is surrounded by many intelligent and communication devices that allow for an enhanced management of the power network itself. The Smart Grid may bring great benefits by massively introducing renewable energy sources in the power grid, reducing carbon emissions and improving sustainability. However, it may also bring big challenges regarding reliability, latency and even cybersecurity, since it opens the power system to at least the same threats faced by the Internet. In fact, vulnerabilities may be still larger, considering the novel, heterogeneous and distributed nature of the Smart Grid. Furthermore, cybersecurity is essential for its survival and feasibility, thus making the risks still more relevant.Such Information and Communication Technologies and computer networks supporting the Smart Grid need to comply with very stringent requirements. They also need to efficiently integrate and manage in a single network a vast array of technologies which diverse link layer technologies, meshed and non-meshed Ethernet networks, different cybersecurity protocols, networking at different layers, cognitive systems and storage and replication of data.The objective is to provide a system capable of providing adequate service to the wide array of applications foreseen for the Smart Grid but the complexity of the problem is impressive and it is not possible to focus all of its aspects in a single paper or even project.The present paper presents these requirements, the solutions and results developed and tested in the FP7 European Project INTEGRIS, especially in the security domain, as well as the future challenges and research lines identified and some prospective solutions.

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“…Our attack test bed consists of the substation and local area network. The substation originally divides into three levels: process level including the I/O devices, intelligent sensors and actuators, bay level including the protection and control IEDs, and station level including the substation computer, operators desk, and the interfaces with outside the substation [15,17,18]. However, we depict only two levels: bay level and station level because our attack experiments only need two levels.…”

Section: System Environmentmentioning

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Intrusion Detection of NSM Based DoS Attacks Using Data Mining in Smart Grid

Choi

Chen

et al. 2012

Energies

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Abstract:In this paper, we analyze the Network and System Management (NSM) requirements and NSM data objects for the intrusion detection of power systems; NSM is an IEC 62351-7 standard. We analyze a SYN flood attack and a buffer overflow attack to cause the Denial of Service (DoS) attack described in NSM. After mounting the attack in our attack testbed, we collect a data set, which is based on attributes for the attack. We then run several data mining methods with the data set using the Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA). In the results, we select the decision tree algorithms with high detection rates, and choose key attributes in high level components of the trees. When we run several data mining methods again with the data set of chosen key attributes, the detection rates of most data mining methods are higher than before. We prove that our selected attack attributes, and the proposed detection process, are efficient and suitable for intrusion detection in the smart grid environment.

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Enhancing IEC 62351 to Improve Security for Energy Automation in Smart Grid Environments

Cited by 40 publications

References 3 publications

Cyber Security and Privacy Issues in Smart Grids

Cyber Security and Privacy Issues in Smart Grids

Smart Grid ICT Research Lines out of the European Project INTEGRIS

Intrusion Detection of NSM Based DoS Attacks Using Data Mining in Smart Grid

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