Review on cyber-physical security of the smart grid: Attacks and defense mechanisms

Tazi, Khadija; Abdi, Farid; Abbou, Mohamed Fouad

doi:10.1109/irsec.2015.7455127

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“…These attacks target the application layer and violate the confidentiality of the system [77] [78]. In [78], the authors state that social engineering attacks are considered the biggest cyber-security threat. They describe several types of social engineering attacks, including phishing, pretexting, baiting, tailgating, ransomware, fake software, reverse social engineering, phone/windows fraud, and robocalls attacks.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cyber-Security of Smart Grids: Attacks, Detection, Countermeasure Techniques, and Future Directions

Khoei¹,

Slimane²,

Kaabouch³

2022

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One of the significant challenges that smart grid networks face is cyber-security. Several studies have been conducted to highlight those security challenges. However, the majority of these surveys classify attacks based on the security requirements, confidentiality, integrity, and availability, without taking into consideration the accountability requirement. In this survey paper, we provide a classification of attacks based on the OSI model and discuss in more detail the cyber-attacks that can target the different layers of smart grid networks communication. We also propose new classifications for the detection and countermeasure techniques and describe existing techniques under each category. Finally, we discuss challenges and future research directions.

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Section: Integritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyber-Security of Smart Grids: Attacks, Detection, Countermeasure Techniques, and Future Directions

Khoei¹,

Slimane²,

Kaabouch³

2022

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“…This type of attack consists of jamming specific signal channels to intervene and disrupt data transmission [76]. This results in unreliable communications and decreased performance in the power system [77,10].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One of the security methods in the smart grid revolves around the denial or prevention of cyber threats. Denial techniques pertaining the security of the smart grid typically take the shape of encryption methods for secure communications within the system [77,103]. The most common encryption methods are the use of symmetric or asymmetric keys.…”

Section: Denial Of Attacksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Security aspects of Internet of Things aided smart grids: A bibliometric survey

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The integration of sensors and communication technology in power systems, known as the smart grid, is an emerging topic in science and technology. One of the critical issues in the smart grid is its increased vulnerability to cyber threats. As such, various types of threats and defense mechanisms are proposed in literature. This paper offers a bibliometric survey of research papers focused on the security aspects of Internet of Things (IoT) aided smart grids. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the very first bibliometric survey paper in this specific field. A bibliometric analysis of all journal articles is performed and the findings are sorted by dates, authorship, and key concepts. Furthermore, this paper also summarizes the types of cyber threats facing the smart grid, the various security mechanisms proposed in literature, as well as the research gaps in the field of smart grid security.

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“…In this section, we present the related work. ere are several works studying security challenges in the smart grid [49,74,80,83]. In general, cybera acks against smart grid are categorized into four di erent groups: denial of services (DoS) a acks, malicious data injection a acks, tra c analysis a acks, and high-level application a acks [83].…”

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A System-level Behavioral Detection Framework for Compromised CPS Devices

Babun

Aksu

Uluagac

2019

ACM Trans. Cyber-Phys. Syst.

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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) play a signi cant role in our critical infrastructure networks from power-distribution to utility networks. e emerging smart-grid concept is a compelling critical CPS infrastructure that relies on two-way communications between smart devices to increase e ciency, enhance reliability, and reduce costs. However, compromised devices in the smart grid poses several security challenges. Consequences of propagating fake data or stealing sensitive smart grid information via compromised devices are costly. Hence, early behavioral detection of compromised devices is critical for protecting the smart grid's components and data. To address these concerns, in this paper, we introduce a novel and con gurable system-level framework to identify compromised smart grid devices. e framework combines system and function call tracing techniques with signal processing and statistical analysis to detect compromised devices based on their behavioral characteristics. We measure the e cacy of our framework with a realistic smart grid substation testbed that includes both resource-limited and resource-rich devices. In total, using our framework, we analyze six di erent types of compromised device scenarios with di erent resources and a ack payloads. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed framework is the rst in detecting compromised CPS smart grid devices with system and function-level call tracing techniques. e experimental results reveal an excellent rate for the detection of compromised devices. Speci cally, performance metrics include accuracy values between 95% and 99% for the di erent a ack scenarios. Finally, the performance analysis demonstrates that the use of the proposed framework has minimal overhead on the smart grid devices' computing resources.

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Review on cyber-physical security of the smart grid: Attacks and defense mechanisms

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Cyber-Security of Smart Grids: Attacks, Detection, Countermeasure Techniques, and Future Directions

Cyber-Security of Smart Grids: Attacks, Detection, Countermeasure Techniques, and Future Directions

Security aspects of Internet of Things aided smart grids: A bibliometric survey

A System-level Behavioral Detection Framework for Compromised CPS Devices

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