Visible to the public Vulnerability analysis of power systems based on cyber-attack and defense models

TitleVulnerability analysis of power systems based on cyber-attack and defense models
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsHasan, S., Ghafouri, A., Dubey, A., Karsai, G., Koutsoukos, X.
Conference Name2018 IEEE Power Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)
Date PublishedFeb. 2018
PublisherIEEE
ISBN Number978-1-5386-2453-1
KeywordsAdversary Models, Attacker Modeling, Blackouts, Cascading Failures, cyber-attack, defender modeling, defense models, game theory, game-theoretic approach, Human Behavior, Load modeling, Metrics, Monitoring, power engineering computing, power system faults, Power system protection, power system security, Power systems, power transmission lines, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, RTUs, SCADA, Scalability, security of data, Smart grid, Substations, system operators, vulnerability analysis
Abstract

Reliable operation of power systems is a primary challenge for the system operators. With the advancement in technology and grid automation, power systems are becoming more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. The main goal of adversaries is to take advantage of these vulnerabilities and destabilize the system. This paper describes a game-theoretic approach to attacker / defender modeling in power systems. In our models, the attacker can strategically identify the subset of substations that maximize damage when compromised. However, the defender can identify the critical subset of substations to protect in order to minimize the damage when an attacker launches a cyber-attack. The algorithms for these models are applied to the standard IEEE-14, 39, and 57 bus examples to identify the critical set of substations given an attacker and a defender budget.

URLhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8403337
DOI10.1109/ISGT.2018.8403337
Citation Keyhasan_vulnerability_2018