Cybersecurity in Modern IEC 61850-based Substations
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Power grids are transitioning to a fully digital data-network-driven paradigm. While digitalization provides great benefits in terms of flexible, adaptive, and efficiency-optimized operation of the power grid, it introduces substantial new risks of the cyberattack on the power grid, including the risk of disruptive and damaging mal-operation of control and protection of modern substations. One of the important aspects of critical infrastructure cybersecurity is real-time situational awareness of the potential system mal-operation due to digital monitoring and control system misbehavior. A pathway to such situational awareness is to understand system vulnerabilities to different cyberattacks and to note the characteristic effects of each category of attack. Hence, it is important for operators of an infrastructural system such as digital substations to investigate potential cyberattack scenarios, and prioritize detection and mitigation efforts according to different cyberattack scenarios. This seminar enumerates cyberattack types particular to the OT (operation, control, and monitoring) of modern IEC 61850-based substations and distribution networks and briefly explains major cyberattack test case scenarios carried out on an advanced digital substation emulated by a real-time cybersecurity test platform.
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- Date: 04 Aug 2020
- Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-08:00) America/Vancouver
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- Vancouver, British Columbia
- Canada
- Starts 06 July 2020 12:03 AM
- Ends 04 August 2020 12:03 PM
- All times are (GMT-08:00) America/Vancouver
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Moein Manbachi, Ph.D., P.Eng., SMIEEE
Cybersecurity in Modern IEC 61850-based Substations
Biography:
Dr. Moein Manbachi received the Ph.D. degree in Mechatronic Systems Engineering from Simon Fraser University (SFU), BC, Canada, in 2015. In 2016, he received prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), which let him pursue his academic/research career as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver (2016–2018). He was also a Research Assistant (2011–2015) and an Assistant Instructor (2014–2015) with the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Vancouver, BC, Canada.
He is currently a Research Associate with the Smart Microgrid Applied Research Team (SMART) within the Centre for Applied Research and Innovation of British Columbia Institute of Technology, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
He has authored or coauthored more than 35 peer-reviewed technical papers in scientific journals and conferences in different power system research areas. His current research interests are smart grids, cybersecurity, substation automation, power system optimization, renewable energies, and energy management systems.
Dr. Manbachi is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (EGBC) and an IEEE Senior Member.
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