Light-weight key distribution and management for Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Kamto, Joseph; Qian, Lijun; Fuller, John; Attia, John Okyere

doi:10.1109/glocomw.2011.6162375

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“…For instance, Stuxnet intensively uses RPC for its LAN propagation, as it is used by Siemens products and allowed on firewalls [37]. In addition, although there are various research works on the authentication protocol of smart grid and control systems [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32], these protocols can be bypassed as discussed earlier in Section III and IV. Therefore, not only the protocols themselves, but also the contents of such authentication and network protocols should be inspected by DPI-enabled solutions to block such malicious communications.…”

Section: Defensive Measuresmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Though there are various research works on smart grid security, most of them focus on the risks of individual subsystems or components such as smart meters, control systems and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) [3], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], or on some aspects of smart grid security such as authentication [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32]. Only a few researchers have addressed security aspects of interplays among the smart grid subsystems and components [33], [34], even though the need has been raised [35]; we cannot assess our health even if we are aware of the conditions of all the organs, because they are interconnected.…”

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Design and Analysis of Security Attacks against Critical Smart Grid Infrastructures

Min

Varadharajan

2014

2014 19th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems

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Smart grid, the future power grid, is expected to provide better energy efficiency, more customer choices and improved reliability and security. As the smart grid is an integrated system that consists of multiple subsystems, understanding it as a whole system is required to fully understand the security risks it faces. In this paper, a sophisticated cyberphysical system (CPS) unique malware attack against the smart grid is proposed. The paper first outlines the architecture of the smart grid in general. Then we present the characteristics of recent malware attacks targeting the CPS such as Stuxnet and Shamoon. These lead to the design of our proposed attack that incorporates the key features from the smart grid architecture and the recent real attacks. One key aspect of the proposed attack is that it manipulates various physical field devices as well as cyber systems to illustrate how a blackout is possible even under the security-improved smart grid environment. Then, we explain the application of defensive techniques in the context of the suggested attack. Lastly, prototype implementation showing the effectiveness of the attack and the defensive measures is described.

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Design and Analysis of Security Attacks against Critical Smart Grid Infrastructures

Min

Varadharajan

2014

2014 19th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems

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“…In [3], the authors propose a group ID-based mechanism to establish the keys for a large number of entities as we expect in the smart grid environment with many home users. A multiplicative group * q Z (q is a prime number) is used to generate secret keys as follows.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Does not take into consideration the network topology Group ID [3] Establish the keys for a large number of entities…”

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Key management solutions in the smart grid environment

Badra

Zeadally

2013

6th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC)

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In the last few years, we have witnessed a growing interest and increasing investments in smart grid technologies around the world. One of the key characteristics of the smart grid is its support for bi-directional information flow between the customer's premise and the utility provider using Internet Protocol-based technologies. The bi-directional nature of information flow has however opened up various security and privacy challenges which are being addressed by many recently proposed security solutions. Key management is often an important component of many of these solutions. We review recently proposed key management solutions aimed for the smart grid environment and highlight their practical implications along with their benefits and shortcoming.

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“…It possessed advantages of efficiency and flexibility in key management. Kamto et al [19] presented a light-weight key distribution and management scheme tailored to AMI. Specifically, a group ID-based mechanism was proposed to establish the keys for a large amount of entities with small overhead.…”

Section: E Kms Of Amimentioning

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A Key Management Scheme for Secure Communications of Information Centric Advanced Metering Infrastructure in Smart Grid

Arifuzzaman

Zheng

et al. 2015

IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.

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Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), as the totality of systems and networks to measure, collect, store, analyze, and use energy usage data, is supposed to be the core component in smart grid. In AMI, there are numerous challenges among which cyber security is a major one that needs to be addressed with priority. The information centric networking (ICN) is a promising architecture for the future Internet that disseminates content based on named data instead of named hosts. The congestion control and self-security can enable more scalable, secure, collaborative, and pervasive networking, these make the ICN a potential network architecture for smart grid. This paper aims to apply the ICN approach on AMI system, which we termed as information centric AMI (ICN-AMI). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to distribute contents (or requests for contents) based on ICN in AMI system. Moreover, a simulation-based performance evaluation is employed to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed ICN-AMI approach in traffic control for developing AMI system in smart grid. In addition, we proposed a novel key management scheme (KMS) for a large number of smart meters in this system to ensure confidentiality, integrality, and authentication. To validate the scheme, the security analysis, comparisons are done to demonstrate that the proposed information centric KMS (ICN-KMS) is possible and a promising solution for ICN-AMI system. Index Terms-Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), cyber security, information centric network (ICN), key management scheme (KMS), smart grid.

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Light-weight key distribution and management for Advanced Metering Infrastructure

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Design and Analysis of Security Attacks against Critical Smart Grid Infrastructures

Design and Analysis of Security Attacks against Critical Smart Grid Infrastructures

Key management solutions in the smart grid environment

A Key Management Scheme for Secure Communications of Information Centric Advanced Metering Infrastructure in Smart Grid

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