Sandia Labs FY22 Laboratory Directed Research & Development Annual Report

R&D 100 Award and a Silver Market Disrupter Award for Products Category under Special Recognitions. PROACTIVE INTRUSION DETECTION AND MITIGATION SYSTEM (PIDMS) FOR DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCE SYSTEMS.

To address a significant and emerging gap in power systems cybersecurity, a first-of-its-kind proactive intrusion detection and mitigation system was developed to secure grid-edge photovoltaic (PV) smart inverters and other distributed energy resource (DER) equipment in DER systems. The PIDMS is a distributed, flexible bump-in-the-wire solution for protecting PV smart inverter communications. Both cyber (network traffic) and physical (power system measurements) are automatically processed using network deep packet inspection tools and custom machine learning algorithms for performing detection of abnormal events and correlation of cyber-physical events. The PIDMS not only detects abnormal events but also automatically deploys mitigations to limit or eliminate system impact. The PIDMS communicates with peer PIDMSs at

different locations using a publisher/subscriber framework for increased situational awareness and alerting. (PI: Shamina Hossain-McKenzie)

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Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, PI for PIDMS (Photo by Taylor McKenzie)

R&D 100 Award Winner MOSAICS: BRINGING THE FUTURE OF INDUSTRIAL CYBERSECURITY INTO FOCUS. More Situational Awareness Industrial Control Systems (MOSAICS), a technology

prevent cyberattacks of industrial control systems. This collaborative project focused on providing scalable evaluation of commercial, off-the-shelf security solutions and test harness for initializing, launching and collecting results from cyber resilience testing in virtual environments. *Sandia is a partner on the MOSAICS technology with Idaho National Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. (Sandia PI: William Waugaman)

initiated by the DOD, provides the first-ever

comprehensive, integrated and automated solution to detect and

William Waugaman, Sandia acting manager and laboratory technical manager overseeing development and demonstration for the entire project (Photo courtesy of William Waugaman)

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