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Secure and Private Smart Grid: The SPEAR Architecture

Radoglou-Grammatikis, Panagiotis; Sarigiannidis, Panagiotis; Iturbe, Eider; Rios, Erkuden; Sarigiannidis, Antonios; Nikolis, Odysseas; Ioannidis, Dimosthenis; Machamint, Vasileios; Tzifas, Michalis; Giannakoulias, Alkiviadis; Angelopoulos, Michail; Papadopoulos, Anastasios; Ramos, Francisco

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is an integral part of Critical Infrastructures (CIs), bringing both significant pros and cons. Focusing our attention on the energy sector, ICT converts the conventional electrical grid into a new paradigm called Smart Grid (SG), providing crucial benefits such as pervasive control, better utilisation of the existing resources, self-healing, etc. However, in parallel, ICT increases the attack surface of this domain, generating new potential cyberthreats. In this paper, we present the Secure and PrivatE smArt gRid (SPEAR) architecture which constitutes an overall solution aiming at protecting SG, by enhancing situational awareness, detecting timely cyberattacks, collecting appropriate forensic evidence and providing an anonymous cybersecurity information-sharing mechanism. Operational characteristics and technical specifications details are analysed for each component, while also the communication interfaces among them are described in detail.

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