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24 Jan 2019
The opening of the event, which was held on 24th January 2019 in the Auditorium on the Bizkaia Technology Park (Zamudio) from 9am to 1.45pm, was presided over by the Basque Government's Deputy Minister for Technology and Innovation, Estíbaliz Hernáez. In addition to presenting the results obtained by the Hazitek SecureGrid project in the three years since it was launched, it was attended by Asier Martínez, Head of CSIRT Services at the Basque CyberSecurity Centre (BCSC), and representatives of leading electricity grid operators, such as Red Eléctrica de España (REE), Iberdrola, EDP and Endesa.
The event was organised by ZIV (project leader), Arteche, GE, Ingeteam, ITS Security, Ormazabal and the Basque Energy Cluster with the collaboration of Tecnalia, as drivers of SecureGrid. In addition, it included the participation as speakers of Asier Martínez, Head of CSIRT at the Basque CyberSecurity Centre (BCSC), and representatives of leading electricity grid operators, such as Red Eléctrica de España, Iberdrola, EDP and Endesa. Moreover, it was also attended by the partners involved in the project, which has received the support of the Basque Government's Department for Economic Development and Infrastructures through the Hazitek Programme.
For the past three years, the SecureGrid project has been addressing the development of new knowledge for the securitisation of electrical installations in the high and medium voltage network and their electronic equipment, the so-called IEDs (Intelligent Electronic Devices), whose remote communication characteristics and capacities make them critical points in Smart Grids against cyber attacks.
As a result of the work carried out, a reference architecture has been defined under the paradigm of in-depth defence and a cybersecurity model for IEDs based on IEEE 1686 Standard. The latter establishes the level of security that an IED can reach (basic, medium or high) and, thanks to it, it is possible to define which functions should be incorporated in equipment to reach a certain security level in terms of confidentiality, integrity, availability and non-repudiation.
Based on this framework, a set of equipment developed by the project partners in charge of the protection and control functions within a substation or a transformation centre has been selected. Such equipment has been subject to security improvements, such as the incorporation of role-based access control measures (RBAC), the generation and management of an audit record with basic information on events, the real time monitoring of events and alarms, and the coding of communications, among others.
The actions on the equipment are complemented with the development of an attack detection system based on data analytics using the Kill Chain methodology and an ethical hacking tool that enables different penetration tests (pentesting) to be configured and carried out on electronic devices in an electrical installation, which may be used by manufacturers to check the level of security of their equipment.
The project has contributed significantly to positioning Basque industry as a benchmark in the field of cybersecurity in Smart Grids, a sector that has undergone remarkable advances and maintains high growth expectancy over the forthcoming years.
During the “BUILDING A MORE CYBERSECURE ELECTRICAL GRID” Conference, speakers put forward their vision of how the problem of cybersecurity is being tackled and its main challenges, needs and actions under way, revealing the future steps to be taken in this field, in addition to raising awareness of the features of new products and tools developed within the framework of the project.
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