Cyber Security in Modern Power Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The increasing frequency and severity of cyberattacks are imposing significant risks to national security and leading to meaningful economic losses. These attacks are typically directed toward entities providing critical services to public welfare, national security and economy. Among these entities, power systems have been a major target of this escalating conflict, and are currently ill-equipped to compete with adversaries’ sophisticated strategies. This is expected to become even more critical as recent advancements in power systems situation awareness and automation significantly increase the number of access points and vulnerabilities which are exploitable to cyber threats.

This Special Issue aims to provide new concepts, methods, strategies, technologies and implementation experiences in modern power system cyber security, including active distribution networks (ADNs), microgrids, smart grids, and bulk power systems. Published works will establish clear procedures to address cyberattack detection, mitigation, and correction, as well as cyber security in power systems planning, operation and control. This includes state estimation, event detection, forecasting, control, and protection, among other preventive, corrective and restorative strategies necessary to ensure a safe, reliable, economical, and sustainable energy supply.

The developed solutions will provide a solid groundwork for the cyber-secure operation of modern power systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Cyber system categorization and maturity models.
• Preparation, detection and analysis of cyber events.
• Containment, eradication and evidence collection of cyberattacks.
• Incident response and recovery (IRR) plans.
• Virtualizing hardware for cyber events recovery.
• Cyber-secure information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) networks.
• Cyber-secure communication, monitoring, control, protection and restoration strategies.
• Cyber-secure active distribution networks (ADNs), microgrids, smart grids, and bulk power systems (BPSs).
• Cyber-secure strategies (state estimation, forecasting, protection, management, etc.).
• Cyber-secure supply-chain management.
• Case studies, experiences and lessons learned based on tests, exercises and post-incident activities (e.g., drills, tabletop, operational exercises, events and incidents).

Prof. Dr. Paulo Fernando Ribeiro
Dr. Yuri Rodrigues
Dr. Maira Monteiro
Guest Editors

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