Short‐term risk assessment of botnet attacks on advanced metering infrastructure

Advanced Metering Infrastructure Performance

Advanced Metering Infrastructure Security Considerations

The purpose of this report is to provide utilities implementing Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) with the knowledge necessary to secure that implementation appropriately. We intend that utilities use this report to guide their planning, procurement, roll-out, and assessment of the security of Advanced Metering Infrastructure. This report discusses threats to the AMI, the likely sources of...

PCA-Based Method for Detecting Integrity Attacks on Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Electric utilities are in the process of installing millions of smart meters around the world, to help improve their power delivery service. Although many of these meters come equipped with encrypted communications, they may potentially be vulnerable to cyber intrusion attempts. These attempts may be aimed at stealing electricity, or destabilizing the electricity market system. Therefore, there...

Honeypot detection in advanced botnet attacks

Botnets have become one of the major attacks in current Internet due to their illicit profitable financial gain. Meanwhile, honeypots have been successfully deployed in many computer security defense systems. Since honeypots set up by security defenders can attract botnet compromises and become spies in exposing botnet membership and botnet attacker behaviors, they are widely used by security d...

Energy Theft in the Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Global energy generation and delivery systems are transitioning to a new computerized “smart grid”. One of the principle components of the smart grid is an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). AMI replaces the analog meters with computerized systems that report usage over digital communication interfaces, e.g., phone lines. However, with this infrastructure comes new risk. In this paper, we ...