Analyzing Cyber Security Strategies for Smart Grid Technologies

This presentation analyzes cyber security strategies within smart grid technologies. It begins by identifying key cyber security issues, such as false data injection attacks, attacks on AGC, and database vulnerabilities. The presentation then critically examines various strategies, including secure management, efficiency, scalability, and evolve-ability through key management protocols. It explores different approaches like defense-in-depth and the use of malware protection, network intrusion prevention systems, and VPN architectures. The methodology involves a qualitative approach using online journals, books, and articles with thematic analysis. The discussion and analysis highlight vulnerabilities in SCADA systems and the use of protocols like IEC 870-5-10x. The study concludes with recommendations for enhancing security concerns in smart grids, such as article validation, data protection, and the use of cryptography. References to relevant research papers and articles are also provided.

Cyber Security Strategies
in Smart Grid

Introduction
Grid connected systems have been pressurized
to meet power requirements in the market.
The power shortage has been a major
problems for all over the world.
Smart grid is an electric network which can
intelligently integrate actions of users
connected in the network.

Aim and Objectives
This research has focused on analyzing cyber security
strategies in smart grid technologies.
Following are objectives of the research:
To identify cyber security issues in smart grid
To critically analyze cyber security strategies in smart
grid
To recommend strategies for enhancing security
concerns in smart grid

Research Questions
Following are research questions:
What are cyber security issues in smart grid?
What cyber security strategies can be applied in smart grid?
How these cyber security strategies can be enhanced in smart grid?

Literature Review
Prevention of unauthorized access by
adversary for hugely secured information
like price information, power usage, control
commands which imposes customer’s
privacy and revealing of proprietary
information related to utilities is known as
confidentiality

Smart Grid
Smart grid engage with a class of
technology that are utilizing electricity
delivery system with computers that are
based on automation and remote control.
These are the systems that have helped
in communication technology that is two-
way, and processing which has been
used in industry.
Traditionally, power grid used to be
designed for transporting power from the
power generation plant to end users.
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Security Issues
False Data Injection Attack
Attacks on AGC
Attacks on database of the Smart Grid Systems

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Cyber Security Threats
• Attenuation and Risk Inspection
• Expected Attack Points and Required
Action
• Distribution System
• Telemetry Infrastructure

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• Make Smart grids
survivable
• Employ a defense in
depth approach
• Providing scalable
security measures
• Embed Security Controls
by design
• Enhance traditional
security measures
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Cyber security strategies for smart grid

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Secure Management: For providing integrity and confidentiality.
Efficiency: With respect to communication, storage and
computation.
Scalability: The objects which share key and the distance covered
by them are to be taken into account by the key management for
the smart grid’s large scale.
Evolve-ability: There exists new technologies and legacy systems
in networks of smart grid. Protocols for key management are used
for accommodating existing devices and evolve for accommodating
future technologies (Cintuglu et al. 2016).
Key management

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Qualitative approach has been
selected in the study.
Data has been collected using
online journals, books and
articles.
Thematic analysis has been
done with three themes created
using research methodology.
Methodology

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Research
planning
Literature
review
Methodology
Data collection
Data analysis
Research
closure
Timeline

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Theme 1: Cyber security issues in Smart Grid
Theme 2: Cyber security strategies can be applied in smart grid
Theme 3: Recommend strategies for enhancing security concerns
in smart grid
Discussion and Analysis

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Shrewd matrix's digital security is a
basic issue which pulled in the
business experts and researcher's
consideration. While couple of
arrangements were assumed in tackling
security issues inside the savvy lattice,
there is still vulnerabilities.
They are associated with a few SCADA
design and control framework.
Conventions for standard
correspondence, for example, IEC 870-
5-10x, Modbus and DNP3 are utilized for
power framework telemetry.
Theme 1: Cyber security issues in Smart Grid

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Carrier Sense Multiple Access
(CSMA) is an acclaimed many
access strategy inside remote
systems. The channel is detected
by a transmitter in CMSA for
affirming the opportunity of it
before the information is sent.
Theme 2: Cyber security strategies can be applied in smart grid

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DoS attacks
happening on the
degree of physical
layer jam the
recurrence. All
together for relieving
these attacks, few of
utilized calculations
are: Chirp Spread
Spectrum (CSS),
Frequency Hopping
Spread Spectrum
(FHSS) and Direct
Sequence Spread
Spectrum (DSSS).
Theme 3: Recommend strategies for enhancing security concerns in smart grid

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Malware protection on both general and embedded purpose system
Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
Risk assessments
Virtual Private Network (VPN) architectures
Recommendations

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It can be concluded that various issues have been faced in
the smart grid systems. The use of cyber security
strategies in the smart grid has helped in maintaining a
keen approach in mitigating issues in smart grid. Verifying
of system for keen framework is finished by giving article
validation and information insurance. Cryptography
calculations and techniques are utilized for scrambling
information in verifying correspondence, securing client
data and validating clients in keeping attacks from
information uprightness.
Conclusion

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