Physical Attestation of Cyber Processes in the Smart Grid

Cyber-Physical Device Authentication for the Smart Grid Electric Vehicle Ecosystem

Entity authentication and related key management is an active research topic in smart grid security. But existing works seem to have overlooked the significance that the smart grid is a cyber-physical system, which entails more considerations in the integration of its cyber and physical domains. Ignoring this could possibly undermine security since the effects of cyber authorization in the smar...

Cyber-Physical System Security of a Power Grid: State-of-the-Art

As part of the smart grid development, more and more technologies are developed and deployed on the power grid to enhance the system reliability. A primary purpose of the smart grid is to significantly increase the capability of computer-based remote control and automation. As a result, the level of connectivity has become much higher, and cyber security also becomes a potential threat to the c...

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 ...

Guest Editorial Special Section on Cyber-Physical Systems and Security for Smart Grid

Security Challenges in Smart Grid Implementation

The smart grid architecture amalgamates the physical power grid and a communication grid into a single monolithic network. It poses several security threats that are well known (Li et al. in IEEE Trans Smart Grid 3:1540–1551, 2012 [1], McDaniel and McLaughlin in IEEE Secur Priv 7:75, 77, 2009 [2], Bisoi and Dash 2011 [3]). However, it faces unknown threats from the cyber-physical interfaces whe...