Paper Info
Title
ExSol: Collaboratively Assessing Cybersecurity Risks for Protecting Energy Delivery Systems
Abstract
No longer just prophesized about, cyber-attacks to Energy Delivery Systems (EDS), e.g., the power grid, gas and oil industries, are now very real dangers, resulting in non-trivial economical losses and an erosion of the public's confidence in EDS infrastructures. In such a context, performing risk analysis for EDS is difficult due to their innate diversity and interdependencies, along with an always-increasing threatscape and attack vectors. With this in mind, this paper presents ExSol, a collaborative, real-time, requirements-based risk assessment framework that features an approach for modeling real-life EDS infrastructures, a technique that retrieves well-defined security requirements from an EDS ontology, and a methodology for calculating risk for a single asset and for an entire system. In addition, we also provide experimental evidence that includes several attack case scenarios, which showcase the effectiveness of our proposed approach for being fully deployed in practice.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/MSCPES.2019.8738791
2019 7th Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems (MSCPES)
Keywords
Field
DocType
real-life EDS,EDS ontology,attack case scenarios,ExSol,cybersecurity risks,cyber-attacks,power grid,gas,oil industries,nontrivial economical losses,EDS infrastructures,risk analysis,attack vectors,requirements-based risk assessment framework,security requirements,collaborative assessment,energy delivery system protection
Interdependence,Ontology,Risk analysis (business),Computer science,Risk assessment,Power grid,Risk analysis (engineering),Risk management,Energy delivery
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2577-1892
978-1-7281-0638-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Josephine Lamp101.69
Carlos E. Rubio-Medrano2185.78
Ziming Zhao332230.52
Gail-Joon Ahn43012203.39