What is it about?
Engineering Cybersecurity in smart (controlled by intelligent ICT-based algorithms) low-voltage (end-customer-faced) energy grids.
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Why is it important?
Smart low voltage grids enable local energy production and consumption which makes energy distribution more efficient and enables the broader usage of renewable (solar and wind) sources, while preventing necessary huge buildouts using intelligent distribution algorithms that base on precise measurment and consumption and production predictions. The latter need to make use of ICT to deliver measurments and energy forcasts necessary to allow for such predictions. However, this usage of ICT has a major drawback: it opens up a lot of potential vulnerabilities prone to cyberattacks. This work therefore provides a guideline for securely designing smart grid architectures to profit from intelligent distribution while preventing a lack of cybersecurity.
Perspectives
It was very interesting to work toghether with specialists from the energy domain, power electronics and ICT, bringing in a cybersecurity perspective from our side. I think the work has profited much from an interdisciplinary working group and their different views.
Stefan Marksteiner
AVL List GmbH
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This page is a summary of: Cyber security requirements engineering for low-voltage distribution smart grid architectures using threat modeling, Journal of Information Security and Applications, December 2019, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jisa.2019.102389.
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