Abstract
Mitigating cybersecurity threats in power distribution grids requires a testbed for cybersecurity, e.g., to evaluate the (physical) impact of cyberattacks, generate datasets, test and validate security approaches, as well as train technical personnel. In this paper, we present a blueprint for such a testbed that relies on network emulation and power flow computation to couple real network applications with a simulated power grid. We discuss the benefits of our approach alongside preliminary results and various use cases for cybersecurity research and training for power distribution grids.
Type
Publication
Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’20)
Lennart Bader
Julian Filter
Olav Lamberts
Simon Ofner