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About this paper

Akila Herath, Chen-Ching Liu, Junho Hong, Kuchan Park

Researchers at Virginia Tech and the University of Michigan-Dearborn experimentally evaluated IEC 62351-compliant Message Authentication Code, a rule-based Intrusion Detection System, and their hybrid integration for securing IEC 61850 GOOSE communication. The hybrid approach effectively mitigates replay, masquerade, and flooding denial-of-service attacks while introducing latencies under one millisecond, enhancing digital substation cyber resilience.

Key insights

  • Individual real-time mitigation techniques exhibit complementary strengths; MAC verification counters masquerade and flooding attacks, while rule-based IDS protects against replay attacks.
  • A hybrid approach integrating MAC verification with a rule-based IDS provides enhanced protection, effectively mitigating replay, masquerade, and flooding DoS attacks in IEC 61850 GOOSE communication.
  • All evaluated mitigation methods, including the hybrid solution, introduce processing latencies of less than 1 ms, confirming their viability for real-time application in digital substations.

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