Security and Privacy Challenges in the Smart Grid

By Patrick Drew McDaniel, Stephen E. McLaughlin. IEEE Security and Privacy, 2009

1,210 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Information Systems

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4. Bo Luo
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8. Vanga Odelu

Citations in the corpus

• Smart Grid Communications: Overview of Research Challenges, Solutions, and Standardization Activities (2011, background): “Solutions are required on different levels: end to end secure communication protocols need to be used, hardware components (e.g. smart meters) need to withstand physical attacks, the grid needs to detect forged/hacked components, and smart meter software should be bug-free [69].”
• Preserving data integrity for smart grid data aggregation (2012, background): “at seconds level) to support intelligent electricity distribution and management; meanwhile, it also introduces new security and privacy challenges [5]–[7].”
• A comparison of innovation policy in the smart grid industry across the pacific: China and the USA (2013, background): “Reduced operation and management costs, lower electricity rates and improved security are other benefits that can be achieved by implementing a smart grid (McDaniel and McLaughlin, 2009).”
• Smart Grid — The New and Improved Power Grid: A Survey (2012, neutral): “The obvious privacy concern is that the energy use information stored at the meter acts as an informationrich side channel, and can be repurposed by interested parties to reveal personal information such as individual’s habits, behaviors, activities, preferences, and even beliefs [45], [147], [162].”
• Smart meter aggregation via secret-sharing (2013, background): “(This important security assumption may not hold in practice, inasmuch as current architectures allow meters to be remotely re-configured and reprogrammed, and their software security is rather poor [19].”
• Energy Theft in the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (2009, background): “The smart grid, AMI in particular, introduces new security challenges [1].”
• EPPA: An Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Aggregation Scheme for Secure Smart Grid Communications (2012, neutral): “Cyber security is of paramount importance in smart grid as communications are deeply involved in its operations [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13].”
• Energy system resilience – A review (2021, background): “Regulation, similar to one in the health sector, may be needed [179].”
• Cyber-Physical Systems Security—A Survey (2017, background): “Whereas at the local level, it allows home consumers better control over their energy use that would be beneficial economically and environmentally [102].”
• Cyber Security and Privacy Issues in Smart Grids (2012, background): “meter inversion) or be manipulated to control the calculation of the electric flow [14].”
• Energy-theft detection issues for advanced metering infrastructure in smart grid (2014, background): “It is reported that each year over 6 billion dollars are lost due to the energy theft in the United States alone[12].”
• Prosumer Communities and Relationships in Smart Grids: A Literature Review, Evolution and Future Directions (2018, background): “Analysis revealed that majority of the literature addresses costs issues [96–98], cyber security [76,99,100], regulatory aspects [97,101,102], customer privacy [3,103,104], and consumers’ perception [105–107].”
• A survey on the communication architectures in smart grid (2011, neutral): “The security problems in power systems have been discussed widely in the literature [74–86].”
• Fog computing security: a review of current applications and security solutions (2017, background): “To eliminate these issues, security policies and strategies should be integrated into Fog systems to track energy consumption information along with contingency plans and disaster recovery modules [53, 54].”