Information security implementation difficulties in critical infrastructures: Smart metering case

AlAbdulkarim, Layla; Lukszo, Zofia

doi:10.1109/icnsc.2010.5461569

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“…Privacy [24] and security [25] form other areas that have to be considered in future work. Privacy in particular forms an obvious challenge in this context.…”

Section: Discussion and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

An agent-based infrastructure for energy profile capture and management

Padget

Riat

Forchhammer

et al. 2011

2011 International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control

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Accurately monitoring changing energy usage pat terns in households is a first requirement for more efficient and eco-friendly energy management. Such data is essential to the establishment of the Smart Grid, but at this stage, domestic data collection devices are still in development and monitoringenabled domestic appliances are rare, so that any experimental software framework must be flexible and adaptable both in respect of sensor sources and developer and user requirements. These considerations have been the drivers behind the dis tributed agent-based platform this paper proposes. It provides: (i) a generic sensor interface that can be specialised for new devices as required, while insulating the rest of the platform from such changes, (ii) persistent unstructured (RDF) data storage, permitting both semantic annotation and semanticbased queries, independent of data sources, and (iii) a flexible, dynamic browser interface, that allows for remote configuration of the sensor platform and accessibility via a wide range of devices. Two small case studies show the utility of the approach.

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“…Privacy [24] and security [25] form other areas that have to be considered in future work. Privacy in particular forms an obvious challenge in this context.…”

Section: Discussion and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

An agent-based infrastructure for energy profile capture and management

Padget

Riat

Forchhammer

et al. 2011

2011 International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control

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“…Simply altering the smart meter reading to report a lower usage than the actual energy consumption will cause the utility company to lose money [12] - [15]. In the situation where the attacker is able to impersonate the smart meter, the attacker may be able to send erroneous data or control commands to the power grid, which may cause dire consequences.…”

Section: B Financial Impacts To Utility Companymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Financial loss to the premise owner can occur is several ways. An attacker may cause the premise owner to pay a higher electrical bill by altering the meter reading so that the smart meter reports a higher usage than the actual energy consumption of the owner [13] - [15]. Altering the smart meter reading can be done by physically tampering the smart meter [10] or performing data manipulation on the smart meter remotely through its network connectivity [13].…”

Section: A Financial Impacts To Premise Ownermentioning

confidence: 99%

Financial impacts of smart meter security and privacy breach

Yussof

Rusli

Yusoff

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia

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Many power utility companies around the world are moving towards smart grid, which integrates power delivery infrastructure with information and communication technologies. Smart meter is one of the main components of smart grid. The task of a smart meter is to track energy consumption of a premise and send that information to the utility company. Although the use of smart meter has many benefits, there are a number of security concerns regarding its usage. One particular concern is regarding the impacts of security and privacy breach of smart meter. This paper focuses on the financial impacts of smart meter security and privacy breach. The financial impacts discussed in this paper are derived from the impacts of security and privacy breach described in the literature. It is found out that the financial loss may involve various parties including the premise owner, the utility company, as well as the nation. The amount of loss can also go up to billions of dollars. Given the large group of people who may be involved and the large amount of money to be potentially lost should a security or privacy breach occur, it is very important for power companies to establish a security policy regarding smart meter and to allocate reasonable amount of resources to secure the deployed smart meter as well as the rest of the smart grid infrastructure.

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“…Based on the bugs reported and technological advancements, the protocols running on the installed SMs need to be updated. However, this is a challenging operation [32,33]. Therefore, we proposed two secure and reliable firmware update protocols for the AMI network.…”

Section: Ami Networkmentioning

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Privacy-Preserving Protocols for IEEE 802.11s-based Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure Networks

Tonyalı¹

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The ongoing Smart Grid (SG) initiative proposes several modifications to the existing power grid in order to better manage power demands, reduce CO 2 emissions and ensure reliability through several new applications. One part of the SG initiative that is currently being implemented is the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) which provides two-way communication between the utility company and the consumers' smart meters (SMs). The AMI can be built by using a wireless mesh network which enables multi-hop communication of SMs. The AMI network enables collection of fine-grained power consumption data at frequent intervals. Such a fine-grained level poses several privacy concerns for the consumers. Eavesdroppers can capture data packets and analyze them by means of load monitoring techniques to make inferences about household activities. To prevent this, in this dissertation, we proposed several privacy-preserving protocols for the IEEE 802.11s-based AMI network, which are based on data obfuscation, fully homomorphic encryption and secure multiparty computation. Simulation results have shown that the performance of the protocols degrades as the network grows. To overcome this problem, we presented a scalable simulation framework for the evaluation of IEEE 802.11s-based AMI applications. We proposed several modifications and parameter adjustments for the network protocols being used. In addition, vi we integrated the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) into the protocol stack and proposed five novel retransmission timeout calculation functions for the CoAP in order to increase its reliability. Upon work showing that there are inconsistencies between the simulator and a testbed, we built an IEEE 802.11s-and ZigBee-based AMI testbed and measured the performance of the proposed protocols under various conditions. The testbed is accessible to the educator and researchers for the experimentation. Finally, we addressed the problem of updating SMs remotely to keep the AMI network up-to-date. To this end, we developed two secure and reliable multicast-overbroadcast protocols by making use of ciphertext-policy attribute based signcryption and random linear network coding. vii

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Information security implementation difficulties in critical infrastructures: Smart metering case

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

An agent-based infrastructure for energy profile capture and management

An agent-based infrastructure for energy profile capture and management

Financial impacts of smart meter security and privacy breach

Privacy-Preserving Protocols for IEEE 802.11s-based Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure Networks

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