Protecting Smart Grid Automation Systems Against Cyberattacks

Dong, Wei; Lu, Yan; Jafari, Mohsen A.; Skare, Paul; Rohde, Kenneth

doi:10.1109/tsg.2011.2159999

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“…A smart meter also assists in remote billing and instant load feedback to the utility for load forecasting. As it is owned by the utility, the smart meter comes with inherent drawbacks related to data confidentiality and privacy [16][17][18]. On the contrary, an e-monitor is owned by the consumer and works independently alongside existing energy meters, without any direct effect on the billing.…”

Section: Basic Energy Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prospects of Appliance-Level Load Monitoring in Off-the-Shelf Energy Monitors: A Technical Review

Haq

Jacobsen

2018

Energies

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Abstract:The smart grid initiative has encouraged utility companies worldwide to roll-out new and smarter versions of energy meters. Before an extensive roll-out, which is both labor-intensive and incurs high capital costs, consumers need to be incentivised to reap the long-term benefits of such smart meters. Off-the-shelf energy monitors (e-monitors) can provide consumers with an insight into such potential benefits. As e-monitors are owned by the consumer, the consumer has greater control over the data, which significantly reduces the privacy and data confidentiality concerns. Because only limited online technical information is available about e-monitors, we evaluate several existing e-monitors using an online technical survey directly from the vendors. Besides automated e-monitoring, the use of different off-the-shelf e-monitors can also help to demonstrate state-of-the-art techniques such as non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), data analytics, and the predictive maintenance of appliances. Our survey indicates a trend towards the incorporation of such state-of-the-art capabilities, particularly the appliance-level e-monitoring and load disaggregation. We have also discussed some essential requirements to implement load disaggregation in the next generation e-monitors. In future, these intelligent e-monitoring techniques will encourage effective consumer participation in the demand-side management (DSM) programs.

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Section: Basic Energy Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prospects of Appliance-Level Load Monitoring in Off-the-Shelf Energy Monitors: A Technical Review

Haq

Jacobsen

2018

Energies

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“…They also discuss security solutions to address these unique challenges. [21] proposes a layered security framework for protecting power grid automation systems against cyber attacks. The security framework satisfies the desired performance in terms of modularity, scalability, extendibility, and manageability and protects the smart grid against attacks from either Internet or internal network via integrating security agents, security switches and security managements.…”

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“…Communication with such legacy devices should be secured by installing a modern security device, also known as bump-in-the-wire (BITW) device, adjacent to them [21]. The BITW device is issued a digital certificate from the CA on behalf of the legacy device.…”

Section: Securing Legacy Devicesmentioning

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Cyber-secure communication architecture for active power distribution networks

Tesfay

Hubaux

Boudec

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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Active power distribution networks require sophisticated monitoring and control strategies for efficient energy management and automatic adaptive reconfiguration of the power infrastructure. Such requirements are realised by deploying a large number of various electronic automation and communication field devices, such as Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) or Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs), and a reliable two-way communication infrastructure that facilitates transfer of sensor data and control signals. In this paper, we perform a detailed threat analysis in a typical active distribution network's automation system. We also propose mechanisms by which we can design a secure and reliable communication network for an active distribution network that is resilient to insider and outsider malicious attacks, natural disasters, and other unintended failure. The proposed security solution also guarantees that an attacker is not able to install a rogue field device by exploiting an emergency situation during islanding.

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“…Those attackers can cause a wide variety of attacks, classified into three main categories [5], [6]: Component-wise, protocol-wise, and topology-wise. Component-wise attacks target the field components that include Remote Terminal Unit (RTU).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The development of these security solutions is faced with many challenges [5], [6] including: 1) some components use propriety OS to control functionality rather than security, 2) automation system network was designed without regard to security, 3) security should be integrated with existing systems without downgrading the performance, 4) remote access to grid devices should be monitored and controlled, and 5) the new protocols should have the capability of incorporating future security solution.…”

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Smart Grid Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Solutions

Aloul¹,

Al-Ali²,

Al-Dalky³

et al. 2012

SGCE

152

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The traditional electrical power grid is currently evolving into the smart grid. Smart grid integrates the traditional electrical power grid with information and communication technologies (ICT). Such integration empowers the electrical utilities providers and consumers, improves the efficiency and the availability of the power system while constantly monitoring, controlling and managing the demands of customers. A smart grid is a huge complex network composed of millions of devices and entities connected with each other. Such a massive network comes with many security concerns and vulnerabilities. In this paper, we survey the latest on smart grid security. We highlight the complexity of the smart grid network and discuss the vulnerabilities specific to this huge heterogeneous network. We discuss then the challenges that exist in securing the smart grid network and how the current security solutions applied for IT networks are not sufficient to secure smart grid networks. We conclude by over viewing the current and needed security solutions for the smart gird.

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Protecting Smart Grid Automation Systems Against Cyberattacks

Cited by 142 publications

References 18 publications

Prospects of Appliance-Level Load Monitoring in Off-the-Shelf Energy Monitors: A Technical Review

Prospects of Appliance-Level Load Monitoring in Off-the-Shelf Energy Monitors: A Technical Review

Cyber-secure communication architecture for active power distribution networks

Smart Grid Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Solutions

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