Smart Grid DNP3 Vulnerability Analysis and Experimentation

This paper highlights different security threats and vulnerabilities that is being challenged in smart-grid utilizing Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3) as a real time communication protocol. Experimentally, we will demonstrate two scenarios of attacks, unsolicited message attack and data set injection. The experiments were run on a computer virtual environment and then simulated in DETER testbed platform. The use of intrusion detection system will be necessary to identify attackers targeting different part of the smart grid infrastructure. Therefore, mitigation techniques will be used to ensure a healthy check of the network and we will propose the use of host-based intrusion detection agent at each Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) for the purpose of detecting the intrusion and mitigating it. Performing attacks, attack detection, prevention and counter measures will be our primary goal to achieve in this research paper.