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Most critical infrastructure systems can be modeled as cyber-physical systems whose cyber components control underlying physical processes so as to optimize specified system objectives based on physical properties, physical constraints, and the current and estimated state of the system. Such systems usually require support for security and performance guarantees: wrongly received or missed commands can render the entire system unstable. Yet, securing cyber-physical systems with heterogeneous components is still an open and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose techniques for resilient substation automation of power utility systems with security based on the trusted computing paradigm. By using trusted platform module (TPM)-enabled components and a novel access control structure that enforces need-to-get-now (availability) policies, we show how to develop IEC/TR 61850-90-5 compliant substation automation systems that are resilient. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by analyzing and experimenting with an open source IEC/TR 61850-90-5 implementation.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. 1027217.
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Guidry, D., Burmester, M., Liu, X., Jenkins, J., Easton, S., Yuan, X. (2013). A Trusted Computing Architecture for Secure Substation Automation. In: Hämmerli, B.M., Kalstad Svendsen, N., Lopez, J. (eds) Critical Information Infrastructures Security. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41485-5_12
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