TY - JOUR
T1 - Cyber risks to critical smart grid assets of industrial control systems
AU - Liu, Chenyang
AU - Alrowaili, Yazeed
AU - Saxena, Neetesh
AU - Konstantinou, Charalambos
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-09-15
Acknowledgements: This research received no external funding.
PY - 2021/9/3
Y1 - 2021/9/3
N2 - Cybersecurity threats targeting industrial control systems (ICS) have significantly increased in the past years. Moreover, the need for users/operators to understand the consequences of attacks targeting these systems and protect all assets is vital. This work explores asset discovery in ICS and how to rank these assets based on their criticality. This paper also discusses asset discovery and its components. We further present existing solutions and tools for asset discovery. We implement a method to identify critical assets based on their connection and discuss related results and evaluation. The evaluation utilises four attack scenarios to stress the importance of protecting these critical assets since the failure to protect them can lead to serious consequences. Using a 12-bus system case, our results show that targeting such a system can increase and overload transmission lines values to 120% and 181% MVA, which can affect the power supply and disrupt service, and it can increase the cost up to 60%, affecting the productivity of this electric grid.
AB - Cybersecurity threats targeting industrial control systems (ICS) have significantly increased in the past years. Moreover, the need for users/operators to understand the consequences of attacks targeting these systems and protect all assets is vital. This work explores asset discovery in ICS and how to rank these assets based on their criticality. This paper also discusses asset discovery and its components. We further present existing solutions and tools for asset discovery. We implement a method to identify critical assets based on their connection and discuss related results and evaluation. The evaluation utilises four attack scenarios to stress the importance of protecting these critical assets since the failure to protect them can lead to serious consequences. Using a 12-bus system case, our results show that targeting such a system can increase and overload transmission lines values to 120% and 181% MVA, which can affect the power supply and disrupt service, and it can increase the cost up to 60%, affecting the productivity of this electric grid.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/671204
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/17/5501
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85114480618&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/en14175501
DO - 10.3390/en14175501
M3 - Article
SN - 1996-1073
VL - 14
SP - 5501
JO - Energies
JF - Energies
IS - 17
ER -