Advanced monitoring based intrusion detection system for distributed and intelligent energy theft: DIET attack in advanced metering infrastructure

Abstract

Power grid and energy theft has an eternal relationship. Though we moved towards Smart Grid, with an expectation for a more efficient, reliable and secure service, so does the attackers. Smart Grid and AMI systems incorporate a good number of security measures, still it is open to various threats. Recent attacks on Smart Grids in U.S., Gulf State and Ukraine proved that the attacks on the grid have become more sophisticated. In this paper we have introduced a new, distributed and intelligent energy theft: DIET attack and proposed an advanced Intrusion Detection System to protect AMI system. The proposed IDS can perform a passive monitoring on the system as well as detect attackers. This features make this IDS more robust and reliable.