Assessing Insider Attacks and Privacy Leakage in Managed IoT Systems for Residential Prosumers

Giuseppe De Marco, Vincenzo Loia, Hadis Karimipour and Pierluigi Siano
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Giuseppe De Marco: Evolvere SpA, Via Gustavo Fara, 35, 20124 Milan, Italy
Vincenzo Loia: Department of Management and Innovation Systems, University of Salerno, 84084 Salerno, Italy
Hadis Karimipour: School of Engineering, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
Pierluigi Siano: Department of Management and Innovation Systems, University of Salerno, 84084 Salerno, Italy

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 9, 1-15

Abstract: The transition towards the massive penetration of Renewable Energy Resources (RESs) into the electricity system requires the implementation of the Smart Grid (SG) paradigm with innovative control systems and equipment. In this new context, Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), including renewable sources and responsive loads, should be redesigned to enable aggregators to provide ancillary services. In fact, by using the Internet of Things (IoT) systems, aggregators can explore energy usage patterns from residential users, also known as prosumers and predict their services. This is undoubtedly important especially for SGs facing the presence of several RESs, where understanding the optimal match between demand and production is desirable from several points of view. However, revealing energy patterns and information can be of concern for privacy if the entire system is not properly designed. In this article, by assuming that the security of low-level communication protocols is guaranteed, we focus our attention at higher levels, in particular at the application level of managed IoT systems used by aggregators. In this regard, we provide an overview of the best practices and outline possible privacy leakages risks along with a list of correlated attacks.

Keywords: insider attacks; privacy leakage; IoT systems; aggregators; prosumers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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