Title :
Enhancing Smart Grid cyber security using power fingerprinting: Integrity assessment and intrusion detection
Author :
Reed, Jeffrey H. ; Gonzalez, Carlos R Aguayo
Author_Institution :
Bradley Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Abstract :
Power Fingerprinting (PFP) provides an innovative, powerful integrity assessment tool that is particularly well suited for critical embedded systems, including resource-constrained and legacy platforms such as those still being used by energy providers. One of the main applications of PFP is cyber security monitoring of critical systems and the detection of malicious intrusions, tampering, and attacks. Among the advantages of PFP over other intrusion detection tools, is the ability to detect zero-day and targeted attacks while introducing almost negligible overhead on the system being monitored. In addition, it can be applied independent of the system hardware, operating system, and software application. For these reasons, PFP has the potential to play a key role in Smart Grid cyber security by protecting platforms and systems that are not covered by traditional security approaches, such as antivirus systems.
Keywords :
power engineering computing; power system protection; power system security; security of data; smart power grids; critical embedded systems; cyber security monitoring; integrity assessment tool; intrusion detection tool; legacy platform; malicious attack detection; malicious intrusion detection; power fingerprinting; resource-constrained platform; smart grid cyber security; tampering detection; zero-day detection; Computer security; Correlation; Feature extraction; Fingerprint recognition; Monitoring; Power demand; Cyber security; anomaly detection; integrity assessment; intrusion detection; power fingerprinting; side-channel analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Future of Instrumentation International Workshop (FIIW), 2012
Conference_Location :
Gatlinburg, TN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2483-0
DOI :
10.1109/FIIW.2012.6378346