Securing critical infrastructures with location based authentication blockchain

Michael Noble; Zhaohong Wang

doi:10.1117/12.2513804

27 March 2019 Securing critical infrastructures with location based authentication blockchain

Michael Noble, Zhaohong Wang

Proceedings Volume 10970, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2019; 109700S (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2513804
Event: SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation, 2019, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

A smart infrastructure with many sensors becomes a complex hybrid system. Excluding external adversaries from infiltrating into the infrastructure is a key problem. With a formalized adversary model, we propose a decentralized architecture for smart infrastructure security. First, it effectively embeds information from the physical features of infrastructures into security. Second, our mechanism is managed through a decentralized blockchain architecture. Third, our approach is especially scalable to ever growing smart infrastructures. We prototyped an authentication blockchain for smart grids with a high penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs). Our implementation demonstrates the effectiveness of our mechanism compared to existing approaches.

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Michael Noble and Zhaohong Wang "Securing critical infrastructures with location based authentication blockchain", Proc. SPIE 10970, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2019, 109700S (27 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2513804

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