Cybersecurity Vulnerability Analysis of the PLC PRIME Standard

Security in critical infrastructures such as the power grid is of vital importance. The Smart Grid puts power grid classical security approach on the ropes, since it introduces cyberphysical systems where devices, communications, and information systems must be protected. PoweRline Intelligent Metering Evolution (PRIME) is a Narrowband Power-Line Communications (NB-PLC) protocol widely used in the last mile of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) deployments, playing a key role in the Smart Grid. Therefore, this work aims to unveil the cybersecurity vulnerabilities present in PRIME standard, proposing solutions and validating and discussing the results obtained.

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Review of key management techniques for advanced metering infrastructure

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks ◽

10.1177/15501477211041541 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (8) ◽

pp. 155014772110415

Author(s):

Otisitswe Kebotogetse ◽

Ravi Samikannu ◽

Abid Yahya

Keyword(s):

Smart Grid ◽

Communication Networks ◽

Key Management ◽

Power Grid ◽

Cyber Attacks ◽

Area Network ◽

Advanced Metering Infrastructure ◽

Wide Area Network ◽

Security Issues ◽

Advanced Metering

The electricity industry has been developed through the introduction of the smart grid. This has brought about two-way communication to the grid and its components. The smart grid has managed to increase the efficiency and reliability of the traditional power grid over the years. A smart grid has a system that is used to measure and collect readings for power consumption reflection, and the system is known as the Advanced Metering Infrastructure. The advanced metering infrastructure has its components too which are the smart metre, metre control system, collector or concentrator and communication networks (wide area network, neighbourhood area network, and home area network). The communication networks in the advanced metering infrastructure have created a vulnerability to cyber-attacks over the years. The reliability of the power grid to consumers relies on the readings from the smart metre, and this brings about the need to secure the smart metre data. This article presents a review of key management methods in advanced metering infrastructure environments. The article begins with an overview of advanced metering infrastructure and then shows the relationship between the advanced metering infrastructure and the smart grid. The review then provides the security issues related to advanced metering infrastructure. Finally, the article provides existing works of key management methods in advanced metering infrastructure and future directions in securing advanced metering infrastructure and the smart grid.

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Security Assumptions for Ubiquitous Secure Smart Grid Infrastructure using 2 Way Peg Blockchain and Fuzzy Specifications

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering - Special Issue ◽

10.35940/ijitee.c8091.029420 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 748-755

Keyword(s):

Smart Grid ◽

Power Grid ◽

Control Unit ◽

Detection Algorithm ◽

Data Detection ◽

Area Network ◽

Advanced Metering Infrastructure ◽

Security Threat ◽

Home Area ◽

Advanced Metering

The smart grid cyber-physical system and advanced metering infrastructure is an immensely growing term in industrial research based on the electrical power grid system and has uncovered an efficient paradigm for the power generation, transmission, and for the expenditure management as well. These systems allow home area networks and advanced metering infrastructure to communicate bi-directionally. False data injection is a new and climacteric security threat to the power grid to tamper such important data. However, these communication channels that the energy service interfaces provide two-way communication according to the central control unit. Thus, for the security and robustness of the grid, it is critical to separate the false or infected data. The existing protocol on this problem is based on state estimation which is less secure and computationally expensive. In this paper, we propose a 2-way peg blockchain security system by providing a digital signature scheme between home area network device (Smart Meter) and AMI server to get authorization, providing an infected data detection algorithm based on fuzzy rule specification and 2WP based blockchain protocol and finally infected performance reputation updating algorithm by computing the probability distribution of uncouth level to detect the infected or compromised the. We get more efficiency and security by performing a detailed analysis.

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Moving Target Defense Intrusion Detection System for IPv6 based smart grid advanced metering infrastructure

SoutheastCon 2017 ◽

10.1109/secon.2017.7925307 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Brycent Chatfield ◽

Rami J. Haddad

Keyword(s):

Intrusion Detection ◽

Smart Grid ◽

Intrusion Detection System ◽

Detection System ◽

Moving Target ◽

Advanced Metering Infrastructure ◽

Moving Target Defense ◽

Advanced Metering

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Support vector machine based intrusion detection system with reduced input features for advanced metering infrastructure of smart grid

2017 4th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Systems (ICACCS) ◽

10.1109/icaccs.2017.8014590 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

R. Vijayanand ◽

D. Devaraj ◽

B. Kannapiran

Keyword(s):

Support Vector Machine ◽

Intrusion Detection ◽

Smart Grid ◽

Intrusion Detection System ◽

Detection System ◽

Support Vector ◽

Advanced Metering Infrastructure ◽

Advanced Metering

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A lightweight authentication and key agreement scheme for smart grid

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks ◽

10.1177/1550147717694173 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 155014771769417 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Lili Yan ◽

Yan Chang ◽

Shibin Zhang

Keyword(s):

Smart Grid ◽

Key Agreement ◽

Mutual Authentication ◽

Special Importance ◽

Advanced Metering Infrastructure ◽

Electrical Grid ◽

Authentication And Key Agreement ◽

And Performance ◽

Advanced Metering ◽

Lightweight Authentication

Smart grid is a modernized electrical grid. It is used to collect information about behaviors of suppliers and consumers and improve the efficiency, reliability, and economics of electricity. Recently, advanced metering infrastructure is proposed as a critical part of the smart grid. The security of advanced metering infrastructure is special importance for smart grid. In order to achieve data confidentiality, privacy, and authentication in advanced metering infrastructure, a lightweight authentication and key agreement scheme is proposed in this article. The scheme provides mutual authentication, key agreement, key refreshment, and multicast mechanism which can prevent various attacks. Furthermore, we analyze the security and performance of the scheme. The analysis shows that the proposed scheme is suitable for smart grid.

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