A Case Study in Secure Systems Design - Jul. 2011

SAND Number: SAND2012-4053P Presenter(s): Lyndon Pierson, Trent Jaeger, Bruce McMillin, Paul Gratz and Ryan Kastner Description: Using smart meters as a motivating engineering challenge. This session will consider how smart meters could be designed to provide robust authentication of access control to prevent an electrical "denial of service" attack. Participants will be given additional background before the workshop outlining desired functional requirements and perceived engineering challenges related to how a very inexpensive, mass-produced secure smart meter could be designed and validated drawing largely on untrusted commercial components. What are the existing security approaches, architectures, and technologies that could be applied? And the remaining research gaps? Would this problem be a good candidate for a national (or global) prize-based design competition?

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