Security concerns in smart grids: Threats, vulnerabilities and countermeasures

Benahmed, Khelifa; Smahi, Abla

doi:10.1109/irsec.2015.7454963

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“…Several works [36,68] underlined security requirements that must be considered in smart grids. In what follows, we highlight the most important requirements in terms of security and privacy:…”

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Internet of things security: A top-down survey

2018

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Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the promising technologies that has attracted a lot of attention in both industrial and academic fields these years. It aims to integrate seamlessly both physical and digital worlds in one single ecosystem that makes up a new intelligent era of Internet. This technology offers a huge business value for organizations and provides opportunities for many existing applications such as energy, healthcare and other sectors. However, as new emergent technology, IoT suffers from several security issues which are most challenging than those from other fields regarding its complex environment and resources-constrained IoT devices. A lot of researches have been initiated in order to provide efficient security solutions in IoT, particularly to address resources constraints and scalability issues. Furthermore, some technologies related to networking and cryptocurrency fields such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Blockchain are revolutionizing the world of the Internet of Things thanks to their efficiency and scalability. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive top down survey of the most recent proposed security and privacy solutions in IoT. We discuss particularly the benefits that new approaches such as blockchain and Software Defined Networking can bring to the security and the privacy in IoT in terms of flexibility and scalability. Finally, we give a general classification of existing solutions and comparison based on important parameters.

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Section: Security Requirementsmentioning

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2018

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“…Indeed, as the consumers adjust their energy consumption with real‐time pricing, several devices wasting huge amounts of electricity can be turned on while the energy price is high. Another way to perform this attack is to inject illegal code in the physical memory of the SM or to replace the firmware through the remote update functionality …”

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“…Wireless links, physical access to critical nodes (SM, IED, medical devices, etc), and sensitive SG applications (dynamic pricing, meter reading, outages management, etc) make the energy HAN vulnerable to various forms of attacks such a DoS, spoofing, eavesdropping, and replay attacks. Vulnerabilities of the energy HAN were extensively investigated and several existing studies [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] outlined related issues.…”

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“…Another way to perform this attack is to inject illegal code in the physical memory of the SM or to replace the firmware through the remote update functionality. 20,21 Eavesdropping and attacks on privacy: The energy HAN have serious privacy issues. [22][23][24] Messages (SM commands, device requests, energy information, etc) exchanged among nodes are vulnerable to eavesdropping and illegitimate gathering of home data.…”

Section: Cyber Attacks On the Energy Hanmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A lightweight IPsec‐based energy home area networks

Azzouz

Aouini

2019

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The smart grid is a complex architecture that involves several networks to exchange data among smart grid domains. The smart meter communicates with intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) through the home area network (HAN) to improve the energy management inside home. This communication can be vulnerable to significant attacks (eavesdropping, spoofing, replay, etc). In this paper, we propose an adaptive IPsec solution for the energy HAN that considers the constrained computational capacity of the devices and the wide range of IED manufacturer. The goal of the proposed solution is to guarantee confidentiality, authentication, and antireplay in providing end‐user energy efficiency. Simulation experiments are conducted to evaluate the latency and the success rate for HAN low‐latency applications when security is provided by using IPsec. Furthermore, we compare performances of the proposed solution with one of the most supported solution proposed by the ZigBee alliance and called Smart Energy profile.

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“…In this attack, a benign message is sent to all devices connected to the network to collect information on them. An open Modbus/TCP is detected and slave IDs of the device together with their IP addresses are identified by Modscan, which is a SCADA Modbus network scanner [34]. Modscan scans the DNP3 protocol and determines the hosts: in particular, the slaves, their DNP3 addresses, and their corresponding master.…”

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Cybersecurity of Microgrid: State-of-the-Art Review and Possible Directions of Future Research

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The infrastructure of and processes involved in a microgrid electrical system require advanced technology to facilitate connection among its various components in order to provide the intelligence and automation that can benefit users. As a consequence, the microgrid has vulnerabilities that can expose it to a wide range of attacks. If they are not adequately addressed, these vulnerabilities may have a destructive impact on a country’s critical infrastructure and economy. While the impact of exploiting vulnerabilities in them is understood, research on the cybersecurity of microgrids is inadequate. This paper provides a comprehensive review of microgrid cybersecurity. In particular, it (1) reviews the state-of-the-art microgrid electrical systems, communication protocols, standards, and vulnerabilities while highlighting prevalent solutions to cybersecurity-related issues in them; (2) provides recommendations to enhance the security of these systems by segregating layers of the microgrid, and (3) identifies the gap in research in the area, and suggests directions for future work to enhance the cybersecurity of microgrids.

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Security concerns in smart grids: Threats, vulnerabilities and countermeasures

Cited by 16 publications

References 17 publications

Internet of things security: A top-down survey

Internet of things security: A top-down survey

A lightweight IPsec‐based energy home area networks

Cybersecurity of Microgrid: State-of-the-Art Review and Possible Directions of Future Research

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