Collaborative, Trust-Based Security Mechanisms for a National Utility Intranet

Abstract

This thesis investigates security mechanisms for utility control and protection networks using IP-based protocol interaction. It proposes flexible, cost-effective solutions in strategic locations to protect transitioning legacy and full IP-standards architectures. It also demonstrates how operational signatures can be defined to enact organizationally-unique standard operating procedures for zero failure in environments with varying levels of uncertainty and trust. The research evaluates layering encryption, authentication, traffic filtering, content checks, and event correlation mechanisms over time-critical primary and backup control/protection signaling to prevent disruption by internal and external malicious activity or errors. Finally, it shows how a regional/national implementation can protect private communities of interest and foster a mix of both centralized and distributed emergency prediction, mitigation, detection, and response with secure, automatic peer-to-peer notifications that share situational awareness across control, transmission, and reliability boundaries and prevent wide-spread, catastrophic power outages.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA476942

Entities

People

  • Gregory M. Coates

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communication Channels
  • Communications Protocols
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Cryptography
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data Links
  • Digital Communications
  • Electronic Mail
  • Information Systems
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Security Protocols

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  • Computer Networking
  • Economics