Cyber Security and Privacy Issues in Smart Grids

Abstract: smart grid is a promising power delivery infrastructure included with communique and statistics technologies. Its bi-directional communique and power float permit each utilities and customers to monitor, predict, and control strength usage. It additionally advances energy and environmental sustainability thru the integration of significant dispensed energy assets. Deploying any such green electric powered machine has considerable and far-achieving monetary and social blessings. nevertheless, improved interconnection and integration also introduce cybervulnerabilities into the grid. Failure to cope with those issues will hinder the modernization of the prevailing electricity machine. In order to build a reliable smart grid, a top level view of relevant cyber protection and privacy troubles is presented. based totally on contemporary literatures, numerous capability research fields are discussed on the give up of this paper.

Keywords: smart grid, SCADA; AMI, security, privacy