MeterGoat: A Low Cost Hardware Platform for Teaching Smart Meter Security

Smart meters play an important role in smart grid architectures by enabling best operational efficiency, enhanced usage monitoring and variable pricing structure, among other advantages. On the other hand, meters have often been deployed with several security vulnerabilities that can compromise the mentioned benefits and result in cyber attacks. Therefore, teams involved in the development of smart meters should be trained in security aspects related to the area. In this context, this paper describes the work in progress project called MeterGoat, whose main objective is to develop an open source and low cost hardware platform for teaching smart meter security. In order to achieve this purpose, it deliberately implements meter's functionalities in a vulnerable way, providing a flexible framework for smart meter pentesting including hardware and firmware weaknesses. KeywordsSmart meter pentesting; trainning platform; cyber attacks; vulnerability.