19 October 2023
AFSecurity Seminar: Advanced Metering Infrastructures Security
| TIME: Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00h PLACE: Kristen Nygaards Hall, 5th floor, IFI, UiO, Ole Johan Dahls hus, Gaustadalleen 23b, Oslo. See map. All interested are welcome. Coffee and snaks served.
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- ABSTRACT:
An advanced metering infrastructure is an integrated system of smart meters, communications networks and data management systems that support the safe, efficient and reliable distribution of electricity while providing advanced functionality to energy customers. Unfortunately, sophisticated cyber attacks on advanced metering infrastructures are a clear and present danger. A chilling scenario involves a computer worm that traverses advanced metering infrastructures, shuts off power and permanently disables millions of smart meters.
This presentation describes the results of security analyses of four large advanced metering infrastructures, one with a point-to-multipoint topology and three with mesh topologies. The research articulates the attack surfaces of the point-to-multipoint and mesh advanced metering infrastructures. Additionally, it identifies potential targets, and describes novel attacks on principal components in the four advanced metering infrastructures. Finally, the research clarifies the security impacts of attacks enabled by physical access, along with techniques for mitigating the attacks. While the attacks, impacts and mitigation techniques pertain to the four advanced metering infrastructures in the case study, they are relevant to advanced metering infrastructures in general.
15:00 Discussion
BIO: Sujeet Shenoi is the F.P. Walter Professor of Computer Science and a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. An active researcher with specialties in cyber security, cyber operations, critical infrastructure protection and digital forensics, Dr. Shenoi works on exciting “problems” ranging from helping solve homicides to penetrating telecommunications systems, oil and gas pipelines, wind farms and voting machines. He spearheads the University of Tulsa's elite Cyber Corps Program that trains “MacGyvers” for U.S. government agencies. For his innovative strategies integrating academics, research and service, Dr. Shenoi was named the 1998-1999 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation.
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AFSecurity is organised by UiO Digital Security. | 
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