A review: Monitoring situational awareness of smart grid cyber‐physical systems and critical asset identification
Abstract Cyber‐Physical Systems (CPSs) are becoming more automated and aimed to be as efficient as possible by enabling integration between their operations and Information Technology (IT) resources. In combination with production automation, these systems need to identify their assets and the corre...
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| author | Yazeed Alrowaili Neetesh Saxena Anurag Srivastava Mauro Conti Pete Burnap |
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| description | Abstract Cyber‐Physical Systems (CPSs) are becoming more automated and aimed to be as efficient as possible by enabling integration between their operations and Information Technology (IT) resources. In combination with production automation, these systems need to identify their assets and the correlation between them; any potential threats or failures alert the relevant user/department and suggest the appropriate remediation plan. Moreover, identifying critical assets in these systems is essential. With numerous research and technologies available, assessing IT assets nowadays can be straightforward to implement. However, there is one significant issue of evaluating operational technology critical assets since they have different characteristics, and traditional solutions cannot work efficiently. This study presents the necessary background to attain the appropriate approach for monitoring critical assets in CPSs' Situational Awareness (SA). Additionally, the study presents a broad survey supported by an in‐depth review of previous works in three important aspects. First, it reviews the applicability of possible techniques, tools and solutions that can be used to collect detailed information from such systems. Secondly, it covers studies that were implemented to evaluate the criticality of assets in CPSs, demonstrates requirements for critical asset identification, explores different risks and failure techniques utilised in these systems and delves into approaches to evaluate such methods in energy systems. Finally, this paper highlights and analyses SA gaps based on existing solutions, provides future directions and discusses open research issues. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2daead3f69fc4b5dade0696749fd02fc2023-09-08T09:04:19ZengWileyIET Cyber-Physical Systems2398-33962023-09-018316018510.1049/cps2.12059A review: Monitoring situational awareness of smart grid cyber‐physical systems and critical asset identificationYazeed Alrowaili0Neetesh Saxena1Anurag Srivastava2Mauro Conti3Pete Burnap4School of Computer Science and Informatics Cardiff University Cardiff UKSchool of Computer Science and Informatics Cardiff University Cardiff UKDepartment of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering West Virginia University Morgantown West Virginia USADepartment of Mathematics University of Padua Padua ItalySchool of Computer Science and Informatics Cardiff University Cardiff UKAbstract Cyber‐Physical Systems (CPSs) are becoming more automated and aimed to be as efficient as possible by enabling integration between their operations and Information Technology (IT) resources. In combination with production automation, these systems need to identify their assets and the correlation between them; any potential threats or failures alert the relevant user/department and suggest the appropriate remediation plan. Moreover, identifying critical assets in these systems is essential. With numerous research and technologies available, assessing IT assets nowadays can be straightforward to implement. However, there is one significant issue of evaluating operational technology critical assets since they have different characteristics, and traditional solutions cannot work efficiently. This study presents the necessary background to attain the appropriate approach for monitoring critical assets in CPSs' Situational Awareness (SA). Additionally, the study presents a broad survey supported by an in‐depth review of previous works in three important aspects. First, it reviews the applicability of possible techniques, tools and solutions that can be used to collect detailed information from such systems. Secondly, it covers studies that were implemented to evaluate the criticality of assets in CPSs, demonstrates requirements for critical asset identification, explores different risks and failure techniques utilised in these systems and delves into approaches to evaluate such methods in energy systems. Finally, this paper highlights and analyses SA gaps based on existing solutions, provides future directions and discusses open research issues.https://doi.org/10.1049/cps2.12059critical infrastructurescyber‐physical systems |
| spellingShingle | Yazeed Alrowaili Neetesh Saxena Anurag Srivastava Mauro Conti Pete Burnap A review: Monitoring situational awareness of smart grid cyber‐physical systems and critical asset identification IET Cyber-Physical Systems critical infrastructures cyber‐physical systems |
| title | A review: Monitoring situational awareness of smart grid cyber‐physical systems and critical asset identification |
| title_full | A review: Monitoring situational awareness of smart grid cyber‐physical systems and critical asset identification |
| title_fullStr | A review: Monitoring situational awareness of smart grid cyber‐physical systems and critical asset identification |
| title_full_unstemmed | A review: Monitoring situational awareness of smart grid cyber‐physical systems and critical asset identification |
| title_short | A review: Monitoring situational awareness of smart grid cyber‐physical systems and critical asset identification |
| title_sort | review monitoring situational awareness of smart grid cyber physical systems and critical asset identification |
| topic | critical infrastructures cyber‐physical systems |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1049/cps2.12059 |
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