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The protection of critical infrastructure against electronic and communication network based attacks becomes more and more important. This work investigates the threat of network-based attacks on substations, the nodes of the electric power grid. Three fundamental types of attacks are derived and a secure communication protocol is proposed to counter these attacks by reducing them to a failure mode that can be dealt with similar to other, non-malicious subsystem failures by safety mechanisms.
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Naedele, M., Dzung, D., Stanimirov, M. (2001). Network Security for Substation Automation Systems. In: Voges, U. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability and Security. SAFECOMP 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2187. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45416-0_3
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