When security firm nCircle polled 104 energy security professionals, 61% said "No!" when asked if smart meters have sufficient security to guard against false data injections. The attacks introduce deliberate errors that evade existing techniques for detection.
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"A false data injection attack is an example of technology advancing faster than security controls," explained nCircle spokesperson Elizabeth Ireland as quoted in Homeland Security News Wire. "This is a... key reason for the significant cyber security risks we face across many facets of critical infrastructure."
“Many older [smart] meters were not designed to adequately protect against false data injection," said Patrick Miller, the founder, CEO, and president of survey co-sponsor EnergySec, a DOE-funded public-private partnership. "It does not help that some communication protocols... don’t offer much protection against false data injection either. Together, these facts highlight a much larger potential problem with data integrity across the smart grid infrastructure."
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