3rd International Workshop on Electrical Power and Energy Systems Safety, Security and Resilience (EPESec 2022)

As a participant, we gladly invite you to attend this event: the 3rd International Workshop on Electrical Power and Energy Systems Safety, Security, and Resilience (EPESec 2022). The event will take place from August 23–August 26, 2022, in Vienna, Austria.

 

The forthcoming smart energy ecosystem is considered as the next-generation power system, which promises self-healing, resilience, sustainability, and efficiency to the critical energy infrastructure. However, due to the increasing digitization of the energy infrastructure, the risk of cyberattacks has risen dramatically, while as the smart energy and power grid is reaching every house and building, the potential of attracting cyber-attackers is magnified. Additionally, legacy systems constitute weak points of failure since they were designed in times when cybersecurity and remote monitoring and control was not part of the technical specifications for the system design.

From this perspective, the EPESec 2022 workshop aims at collecting the most relevant ongoing research efforts in the EPES digital security field. It also serves as a forum for relevant projects in order to disseminate their security-related results, boost cooperation, knowledge sharing and follow-up synergies, and foster the development of the EPES Security Community, composed of security experts and practitioners.

 

Important Dates
Submission Deadline May 13, 2022
Author Notification June 05, 2022
Proceedings Version June 19, 2022
ARES EU Symposium August 23, 2022
Conference August 23 – August 26, 2022

 

Click here for more information: https://www.ares-conference.eu/workshops-eu-symposium/epesec-2022/

We would like to express our congratulations to our KTH colleagues, who have published their article entitled “Two Decades of Cyberattack Simulations: A Systematic Literature Review” in the Computers & Security (2022) journal.

 

The abstract is as follows:

Cyberattack simulations appear across multiple computer security domains and are interpreted in many different but equally viable ways. However, this makes the topic appear fragmented and inconsistent, making it challenging to identify and communicate relevant research. Therefore, this article contributes to a unified baseline by presenting the results of a systematic literature review. The review targeted attack simulations published between 1999 and 2019, specifically those exploring which specific steps result in successful attacks. The search initially produced 647 articles, later reduced to 11 key contributions. Despite being scattered across application domains, their general aims, contributions, and problem statements were remarkably similar. This was despite them generally not citing each other or a common body of work. However, the attack simulations differed in implementation details, such as modeling techniques, attacker decision-making, and how time is incorporated. How to construct a fully unified view of the entire topic is still somewhat unclear, particularly from the 11 articles. However, the results presented here should help orient practitioners and researchers interested in attack simulations regarding both present and future work. Particularly since, despite the seemingly implausible sample, the cumulative evidence suggests that attack simulations have yet to be pursued as a distinct research topic.

 

The complete article can be reviewed and found at the following link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2022.102681