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Demonstration of Man in the Middle Attack on a Commercial Photovoltaic Inverter Providing Ancillary Services
Rapid modernisation of distribution power systems aims to improve system efficiency and reliability while increasing photovoltaic (PV) penetration levels. However, ensuring the cyber security of such smart distribution grids has emerged as major challenge. Cyber-attacks on key equipment of distribution power systems may lead to inefficient operation of the grid, breach private smart meter data or cause intentional false tripping of feeders. In this paper, a man in the middle attack on a commercial solar PV inverter, which provides ancillary services to the grid, is demonstrated to cause an intentional false tripping of the entire feeder leading to a regional blackout. The successful experimental implementation of the attack reveals the effectiveness and the risk of this attack. Detailed risk analysis is conducted to asses the influence of different factors, such as feeder loading and PV inverter capacity, on the effectiveness of the proposed attack. ; © 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. G. Tertytchny et al., "Demonstration of Man in the Middle Attack on a Commercial Photovoltaic Inverter Providing Ancillary Services," 2020 IEEE CyberPELS (CyberPELS), Miami, FL, USA, 2020, pp. 1-7, doi:10.1109/CyberPELS49534.2020.9311531.This work is partially funded by from the Republic of Cyprus through the Directorate General for European Programmes, Coordination and Development.
Demonstration of Man in the Middle Attack on a Commercial Photovoltaic Inverter Providing Ancillary Services
Rapid modernisation of distribution power systems aims to improve system efficiency and reliability while increasing photovoltaic (PV) penetration levels. However, ensuring the cyber security of such smart distribution grids has emerged as major challenge. Cyber-attacks on key equipment of distribution power systems may lead to inefficient operation of the grid, breach private smart meter data or cause intentional false tripping of feeders. In this paper, a man in the middle attack on a commercial solar PV inverter, which provides ancillary services to the grid, is demonstrated to cause an intentional false tripping of the entire feeder leading to a regional blackout. The successful experimental implementation of the attack reveals the effectiveness and the risk of this attack. Detailed risk analysis is conducted to asses the influence of different factors, such as feeder loading and PV inverter capacity, on the effectiveness of the proposed attack. ; © 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. G. Tertytchny et al., "Demonstration of Man in the Middle Attack on a Commercial Photovoltaic Inverter Providing Ancillary Services," 2020 IEEE CyberPELS (CyberPELS), Miami, FL, USA, 2020, pp. 1-7, doi:10.1109/CyberPELS49534.2020.9311531.This work is partially funded by from the Republic of Cyprus through the Directorate General for European Programmes, Coordination and Development.
Demonstration of Man in the Middle Attack on a Commercial Photovoltaic Inverter Providing Ancillary Services
Georgios Tertytchny (author) / Hazem Karbouj (author) / Lenos Hadjidemetriou (author) / Charalambos Charalambous (author) / Maria K. Michael (author) / Marios Sazos (author) / Michail Maniatakos (author)
2021-01-05
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
690
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