"Game Theory Comes to the Defense of the Smart Grid"

There are various infiltration strategies adversaries can use to threaten the smart grid. For example, in a false-data injection attack, someone could hack into the grid's communication networks and replace actual measurements with false data. Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, in which threat actors flood the communication infrastructure with maliciously-generated data packets, are another technique in the cyber intruder's arsenal. Game theory involves mathematical models to simulate and analyze scenarios where the "players" in the game, in this case, the attackers and cyber defenders of the power grid, make a series of interdependent decisions as they execute and adapt their attack and defense strategies. Modeling attack jamming and defense anti-jamming as a zero-sum stochastic (probabilistic) game is part of the research at Purdue University. This article continues to discuss the use of game theory in defending the smart grid against attacks.  

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