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Security Analysis of Smart Grid Cyber Physical Infrastructures Using Modeling and Game Theoretic Simulation...

by Robert K Abercrombie, Frederick Sheldon
Publication Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
Page Numbers
455 to 462
Publisher Location
Los Alamitos, California, United States of America
Conference Name
2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2015)
Conference Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Conference Sponsor
IEEE, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE Big Data
Conference Date
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Cyber physical computing infrastructures typically consist of a number of sites are interconnected. Its operation critically depends both on cyber components and physical components. Both types of components are subject to attacks of different kinds and frequencies, which must be accounted for the initial provisioning and subsequent operation of the infrastructure via information security analysis. Information security analysis can be performed using game theory implemented in dynamic Agent Based Game Theoretic (ABGT) simulations. Such simulations can be verified with the results from game theory analysis and further used to explore larger scale, real world scenarios involving multiple attackers, defenders, and information assets. We concentrated our analysis
on the electric sector failure scenarios and impact analyses by the NESCOR Working Group Study, From the Section 5 electric sector representative failure scenarios; we extracted the four generic failure scenarios and grouped them into three specific threat categories (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) to the system. These specific failure scenarios serve as a demonstration of our simulation. The analysis using our ABGT simulation demonstrates how to model the electric sector
functional domain using a set of rationalized game theoretic rules decomposed from the failure scenarios in terms of how those scenarios might impact the cyber physical infrastructure network with respect to CIA.