Physical and cyber security in a smart grid environment

Cyber-Physical Systems Security for Smart Grid

Cyber-physical security of Wide-Area Monitoring, Protection and Control in a smart grid environment

Smart grid initiatives will produce a grid that is increasingly dependent on its cyber infrastructure in order to support the numerous power applications necessary to provide improved grid monitoring and control capabilities. However, recent findings documented in government reports and other literature, indicate the growing threat of cyber-based attacks in numbers and sophistication targeting ...

Cyber-Physical Security of a Smart Grid Infrastructure

| It is often appealing to assume that existing solutions can be directly applied to emerging engineering domains. Unfortunately, careful investigation of the unique challenges presented by new domains exposes its idiosyncrasies, thus often requiring new approaches and solutions. In this paper, we argue that the Bsmart[ grid, replacing its incredibly successful and reliable predecessor, poses a...

Cyber-Physical Systems Security for the Smart Grid

The integration of Information Technology (IT) systems (computations and communications–the cyber world) with sensor and actuation data (the physical world), can introduce new, and fundamentally different approaches to security research in the growing field of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), when compared to other purely-cyber systems. In our earlier work [4, 2, 1, 3], we have shown that because ...

Cyber Security in Smart Grid Substations

This report describes the state of smart grid security in Europe, specifically the Netherlands, and the cyber security of substations in particular. The focus of this study is the perception of risks and threats in smart grid cyber security and the international standards implemented in smart grids. The created overview is based on semi-structured interviews with 13 experts originating from eig...