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Center for Nonlinear Studies |
Smart electric meters are arguably the most well developed aspect of the smart grid to date. With increased economic stimulus for smart grid pilots and new vendors constantly entering the market, smart meters are poised to become ubiquitous within the decade. As with any emerging system, their security should be well understood at both the architectural and implementation levels before standardization and deployment ramp up. We present a first step in this direction through the use of systematic penetration testing to discover security and privacy problems in commercially available smart meters. To address the challenges of pen-testing a diverse set of metering equipment, we use attack trees to reason about potential architectural and implementation flaws in smart meters. Our results show basic shortcomings in the security of metering systems from two different vendors.
Host: Misha Chertkov, chertkov@lanl.gov, 665-8119