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Prevention, detection and response are nowadays considered to be three priority topics for protecting critical infrastructures, such as energy control systems. Despite attempts to address these current issues, there is still a particular lack of investigation in these areas, and in particular in dynamic and automatic proactive solutions. In this paper we propose a mechanism, which is called PDR, with the capability of anticipating anomalies, detecting anomalous behaviours and responding to them in a timely manner. PDR is based on a conglomeration of technologies and on a set of essential components with the purpose of offering situational awareness irrespective of where the system is located. In addition, the mechanism can also compute its functional capacities by evaluating its efficacy and precision in the prediction and detection of disturbances. With this, the entire system is able to know the real reliability of its services and its activity in remote substations at all times.
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Alcaraz, C., Sönmez Turan, M. (2013). PDR: A Prevention, Detection and Response Mechanism for Anomalies in Energy Control Systems. In: Hämmerli, B.M., Kalstad Svendsen, N., Lopez, J. (eds) Critical Information Infrastructures Security. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41485-5_3
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