Strengthening the cybersecurity of smart grids: The role of artificial intelligence in resiliency of substation intelligent electronic devices
2020 (English)In: Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security: a virtual conference hosted by University of Chester UK 25-26 June 202 / [ed] Thaddeus Eze, Lee Speakman, Cyril Onwubiko, Reading: Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2020, p. 143-150Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The Executive Order 13800—Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure—issued by the President of the United States, calls for an evaluation of the “readiness and gaps in the United States’ ability to manage and mitigate consequences of a cyber incident against the electricity subsector.” In May of 2018, the Office of Management and Budget finished evaluating the 96 risk assessments conducted by various agencies and published Federal Cybersecurity Risk Determination Report and Action Plan (Risk Report). While the report embraced a broad defending forward strategy, it made no reference to smart grids or their vulnerable intelligent substations and did not address how federal agencies plan to respond to emerging threats to these systems. While the paper does not discuss how to attack the smart grids in the cyber domain, the contribution to the academic debate lies in validating some of the vulnerabilities of the grid’s substations in order for government, private industry, academia, and civil society to better collaborate in disrupting or halting malicious cyber activities before they disrupt the power supply of the United States and its Transatlantic allies. We also discuss how Artificial Intelligence and related techniques can mitigate security risks to cyber-physical systems. Until this technology becomes available, however, standardization of cyber security efforts must be enforced through regulatory means, such as the enforcement of security-by-design Intelligent Electronic Devices and protocols for the smart grid.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Reading: Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2020. p. 143-150
Series
Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Warfare and Security, ISSN 2048-8602, E-ISSN 2048-8610
Keywords [en]
Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Intelligent Electronic Devices, Smart Grids, Substations, Budget control, Computer crime, Electric power transmission networks, Embedded systems, Risk assessment, Security of data, Thermoelectric equipment, Federal agency, Forward strategy, Intelligent electronic device, Office of management and budgets, Private industries, Risk determination, Security risks, Smart power grids
National Category
Computer Sciences Computer Systems
Research subject
Systems science for defence and security
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-10210DOI: 10.34190/EWS.20.043OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-10210DiVA, id: diva2:1576678
Conference
19th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, a virtual conference, University of Chester, UK, 25-26 June 2020
2021-07-012021-07-012021-12-21Bibliographically approved