Using an IPv6 moving target defense to protect the Smart Grid

Groat, Stephen; Dunlop, Matthew; Urbanksi, William; Marchany, Randy; Tront, Joseph G.

doi:10.1109/isgt.2012.6175633

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“…It is also necessary to configure Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) between peers; depend on protection mechanisms such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems; and use additional security approaches (Alcaraz and Zeadally, 2015). These approaches could, for example, help the obfuscation of IP addresses such as the MT6D proposed by Groat et al (2012), or offer the means to ensure wide-area situational awareness, forensics and learning, trust management and privacy, self-healing, etc. Many of them are described in detail in Zeadally (2013, 2015).…”

Section: Structural Controllability In Super Node Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy enforcement system for secure interoperable control in distributed Smart Grid systems

Alcaraz

López

Wolthusen

2016

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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Section: Structural Controllability In Super Node Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy enforcement system for secure interoperable control in distributed Smart Grid systems

Alcaraz

López

Wolthusen

2016

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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“…• Reconnaissance (or scanning) attacks: Scanning attacks are used by attackers to gather information and intelligence about a target system before an actual attack is launched. attacks include the use of hidden proxies, IP/port shuffling and/or address mapping [13,34,51,61,82,83,88,93,142,145,158,105]. For example, Meier et al [105] proposed a novel network obfuscation approach and implemented a framework named 'NetHide' which can successfully battle against the possible attacks such as Link-Flooding Attacks (LFAs) launched by even advanced attackers.…”

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Toward Proactive, Adaptive Defense: A Survey on Moving Target Defense

Cho

Sharma

Alavizadeh

et al. 2020

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Reactive defense mechanisms, such as intrusion detection systems, have made significant efforts to secure a system or network for the last several decades. However, the nature of reactive security mechanisms has limitations because potential attackers cannot be prevented in advance. We are facing a reality with the proliferation of persistent, advanced, intelligent attacks while defenders are often way behind attackers in taking appropriate actions to thwart potential attackers. The concept of moving target defense (MTD) has emerged as a proactive defense mechanism aiming to prevent attacks. In this work, we conducted a comprehensive, in-depth survey to discuss the following aspects of MTD: key roles, design principles, classifications, common attacks, key methodologies, important algorithms, metrics, evaluation methods, and application domains. We discuss the pros and cons of all aspects of MTD surveyed in this work. Lastly, we highlight insights and lessons learned from this study and suggest future work directions. The aim of this paper is to provide the overall trends of MTD research in terms of critical aspects of defense systems for researchers who seek for developing proactive, adaptive MTD mechanisms.

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“…Implementing a compressed form of IPsec allows end-toend integrity and confidentiality of the communications in a 6LoWPAN design, but side-channel analysis attacks can still correlate this data enough to determine if a wireless device on the Internet of Things is transmitting data in such a way, duration, or periodicity to reveal more information to attackers. Researchers in [10] proposed the use of Moving Target IPv6 Defense to defend the Smart Grid by rotating the IPv6 addresses of the source and destination host devices, yet they did not specifically address how to implement such a resource intensive scheme on lowpowered devices within 6LoWPAN. We plan to further carry out this work within 6LoWPAN in order to add an additional layer of protection to the Internet of Things.…”

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Implementing moving target IPv6 defense to secure 6LoWPAN in the internet of things and smart grid

Sherburne

Marchany

Tront

2014

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research Conference on - CISR '14

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The growing momentum of the Internet of Things (IoT) has shown an increase in attack vectors within the security research community. We propose adapting a recent new approach of frequently changing IPv6 address assignment to add an additional layer of security to the Internet of Things. We examine implementing Moving Target IPv6 Defense (MT6D) in IPv6 over Low-Powered Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN); a protocol that is being used in wireless sensors found in home automation systems and smart meters. 6LoWPAN allows the Internet of Things to extend into the world of wireless sensor networks. We propose adapting Moving-Target IPv6 Defense for use with 6LoWPAN in order to defend against network-side attacks such as Denial-of-Service and Man-In-The-Middle while maintaining anonymity of client-server communications. This research aims in providing a moving-target defense for wireless sensor networks while maintaining power efficiency within the network.

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Using an IPv6 moving target defense to protect the Smart Grid

Cited by 29 publications

References 12 publications

Policy enforcement system for secure interoperable control in distributed Smart Grid systems

Policy enforcement system for secure interoperable control in distributed Smart Grid systems

Toward Proactive, Adaptive Defense: A Survey on Moving Target Defense

Implementing moving target IPv6 defense to secure 6LoWPAN in the internet of things and smart grid

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