A cyber security study of a SCADA energy management system: Stealthy deception attacks on the state estimator

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 44, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 11271-11277

  Teixeira, André ^a   Dán, György ^a   Sandberg, Henrik ^a   Johansson, Karl H ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Energy management systems; Power system; State estimation; Systems security

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NETWORK SECURITY; SCADA SYSTEMS; STATE ESTIMATION;

BAD DATA DETECTIONS; MEASUREMENT REDUNDANCY; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; POWER SYSTEM; SECURITY METRICES; STATE ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS; SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATAACQUISITION SYSTEMS (SCADA); SYSTEMS SECURITY;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84866769548     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.02210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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