Taxonomy of Fingerprinting Techniques for Evaluation of Smart Grid Honeypot Realism

Vanessa Tay, Xinran Li, Daisuke Mashima, Bennet Ng, Phuong Cao, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iyer

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Abstract

Honeypots are a form of deception technology that provides an additional line of defense, and is regarded as a cybersecurity application of digital twins in the smart grid domain. By misleading attackers into a decoy and thereafter, performing threat intelligence collection and analysis, honeypots allow operators time to conceptualize mitigation strategies. In that regard, the most important property of a honeypot is realism from the attackers' perspective, but the task of imitating the real system remains non-trivial, especially for smart grids which encompass immensely intricate infrastructures. The absence of an established way to guide the design of, or assess the effectiveness of smart grid honeypots, further compounds the problem. To supplement such research gaps, this paper first surveys existing literature on honeypot detection strategies, and thereafter, delineates a taxonomy of fingerprinting techniques geared towards smart grids. Such a taxonomy can be used to judge the realism of smart grid honeypots, and this paper demonstrates relevant evaluation applications after discussing our own implementation of a comprehensive smart grid honeypot. In essence, the aforementioned efforts are made to elucidate varied dimensions of smart grid honeypots' realism and thereby provide an effective guide for the design of smart grid honeypots that are robust against fingerprinting.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids, SmartGridComm 2023 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665455541
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event14th IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids, SmartGridComm 2023 - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Duration: Oct 31 2023Nov 3 2023

Publication series

Name2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids, SmartGridComm 2023 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference14th IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids, SmartGridComm 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityGlasgow
Period10/31/2311/3/23

Keywords

  • Cybersecurity
  • Honeypot
  • Smart Grid

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Control and Optimization
  • Artificial Intelligence

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