SealedGRID: Scalable, trustEd, and interoperAble pLatform for sEcureD smart GRID

Currently, much effort is being made on a European and global level, to push towards realizing a sustainable development of the Smart Grid, with the minimum vulnerability to external attacks or to malicious Smart Grid nodes. Utility companies globally invest in an efficient, controlled and flexible distribution of the energy to optimize the services they provide to the end customers. On the other hand, individual clients call for more efficient Smart Grid solutions with guaranteed highly secure Demand Response services that could reduce their electricity bill without sacrificing their privacy or their energy-consuming habits. In this paper, we present the SealedGRID that provides an innovative platform that abides by the existing standardization work and is directly utilized by the shareholders to provide new tools towards a scalable, highly trusted, and interoperable Smart Grid security platform.

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Aristeidis Farao

Christoforos Ntantogian

Cristiana Istrate

George Suciu

Christos Xenakis

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Publication date: September 2019

Publication date (Print): September 2019

Pages: 74-81

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[0001]Neurosoft S.A, Greece

[0002]Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece

[0003]BEIA Consult International, Romania

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/icscsr19.10

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Conference name: 6th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2019

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Conference location: Athens, Greece

Conference date: 10th-12th September 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Cyber Security Research

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[1] X. LongD. TipperY. Qian An advanced key management scheme for secure smart grid communications 2013 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) 504 509 Oct 2013

[2] A. MohammadaliM. Sayad HaghighiM. H. TadayonA. Mohammadi-Nodooshan A novel identity-based key establishment method for advanced metering infrastructure in smart grid IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 9 4 2834 2842 July 2018

[3] Y. W. LawM. PalaniswamiG. KoungaA. Lo Wake: Key management scheme for wide-area measurement systems in smart grid IEEE Communications Magazine 51 1 34 41 January 2013

[4] Baumeister T. Adapting pki for the smart grid 2011 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) 249 254 Oct 2011

[5] Nian LiuJinshan ChenLin ZhuJianhua ZhangYanling He A key management scheme for secure communications of advanced metering infrastructure in smart grid Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on 60 4746 4756 10 2013

[6] Ibm encrypting data with confidence, across the enterprise and beyond 2015

[7] Elster energyaxis system, release 8.0 2012 https://www.elstersolutions.com/en/product-details-all-regions/338/en/EnergyAxis

[8] Sypris electronics cryptographic key management system https://www.sypriselectronics.com/information-security/cyber-security-solutions/smart-grid-security/

[9] Lili YanYan ChangShibin Zhang A lightweight authentication and key agreement scheme for smart grid International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 13 2 1550147717694173 2017

[10] DNP3 Users Group Technical Committee. DNP3 Secure Authentication Specification Version 2.0, DNP Users Group Documentation as a supplement to Volume 2 of DNP3. Technical report, DNP Users Group 2008

[11] Iec ts 62351 series, power systems management and associated information exchange – data and communications security, tech specification 2007 http://www.iec.ch/smartgrid/standards/

[12] Max36025 smart meter https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/products/power/supervisors-voltage-monitors-sequencers/MAX36025.html

[13] Gemalto identity-based model utilizing a pki https://safenet.gemalto.com/data-protection/advanced-metering-infrastructure-smart-grid-security

[14] Bitcoin blockchain http://blockchain.info/

[15] CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Smart Grid Information Security December 2014

[16] Finster SörenBaumgart Ingmar Elder-berry: A peer-to-peer, privacy-aware smart metering protocol 2013 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM Workshops Turin, Italy April 14-19 2013 37 42 2013

[17] R. VijayanandD. DevarajB. KannapiranKamatchi Kartheeban Bit masking based secure data aggregation technique for advanced metering infrastructure in smart grid system 2016 International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI) 1 5 2016

[18] F. KnirschG. EiblD. Engel Error-resilient masking approaches for privacy preserving data aggregation IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 9 4 3351 3361 July 2018

[19] Trusted smart grid privacy program https://www.truste.com/privacy-certification-standards/trusted-smart-grid/

[20] Energy smart florida https://www.fpl.com/smart-meters/pdf/ensuring-privacy.pdf

[21] Magee, T. Secure Interoperable Open Smart Grid Demonstration Project Consolidated Edison Company Of New York, Inc. 2014

[22] C. AlcarazJ. Lopez Secure Interoperability in Cyber-Physical Systems Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications, IGI Global 2016 137

[23] Daniela RosicUgljesa NovakSrdjan Vukmirovic Role-based access control model supporting regional division in smart grid system 2013 Fifth International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks 197 201 2013

[24] Li DuanDongxi LiuYang ZhangShiping ChenRen Ping LiuBo ChengJunliang Chen Secure data-centric access control for smart grid services based on publish/subscribe systems ACM Trans. Internet Technol. 16 4 23 1 23 17 December 2016

[25] Itron’s openway riva https://www.itron.com/na/industries/electricity/openway-riva

[26] Ul http://industries.ul.com/energy/smart-grid

[27] Andrew J. PaverdAndrew P. Martin Hardware security for device authentication in the smart grid Jorge Cuellar Smart Grid Security 72 84 Berlin, Heidelberg 2013 Springer Berlin Heidelberg

[28] Andrew J. PaverdAndrew P. MartinIan Brown Privacy-enhanced bi-directional communication in the smart grid using trusted computing 2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) 872 877 2014

[29] J. ZhaoJ. LiuZ. QinK. Ren Privacy protection scheme based on remote anonymous attestation for trusted smart meters IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 9 4 3313 3320 July 2018

[30] Trusted Computing Group, TPM Mobile with Trusted Execution Environment for Comprehensive Mobile Device Security, Whitepaper June 2012

[31] GlobalPlatform: Trusted Execution Environment System Architecture 2011

[32] Killing the Password and Preserving Privacy with Device-Centric and Attribute-based Authentication Zenodo February 2019 https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08360

[33] Rubio Tracking advanced persistent threats in critical infrastructures through opinion dynamics Javier LopezJianying ZhouMiguel Soriano Computer Security 555 574 Cham 2018 Springer International Publishing

[34] T. RoblesD. MartínR. AlcarriaB. BordelM.-Á. Manso-Callejo A blockchain-based authorization system for trustworthy resource monitoring and trading in smart communities Sensors 18 3561 3569 2018

[35] J. CallasL. DonnerhackeH. FinneyD. ShawR. Thayer OpenPGP Message Format RFC 4880 (Proposed Standard) Nov 2007

[36] J. KimH. Choi An efficient and versatile key management protocol for secure smart grid communications 2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 1823 1828 April 2012

[37] Sheng XiaoWeibo GongDon Towsley Dynamic Key Management in a Smart Grid 55 68 Springer New York, New York, NY 2014

[38] Parvez Securing metering infrastructure of smart grid: A machine learning and localization based key management approach Energies 9 9 2016.

[39] G. SuciuC. NădragC. IstrateA. VulpeM. DituO. Subea Comparative analysis of distributed ledger technologies 370 373 Nov 2018

[40] Conner Fromknecht, Dragos Velicanu, and Sophia Yakoubov. A decentralized public key infrastructure with identity retention. Technical report, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2014/803 2014 http://eprint.iacr.org 2014

[41] Demertzis Self-organised key management for the smart grid Symeon PapavassiliouStefan Ruehrup Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks 303 316 Cham 2015 Springer International Publishing

[42] Karopoulos Towards trusted metering in the smart grid. 2017 IEEE 22nd International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) 1 5 June 2017

[43] Georgios KaropoulosChristoforos NtantogianChristos Xenakis Masker: Masking for privacy-preserving aggregation in the smart grid ecosystem Computers Security 73 307 325 2018

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