SDN-microSENSE: SDN – microgrid reSilient Electrical eNergy SystEm

The smart energy ecosystem is the next step of the conventional electrical grid, offering increased reliability, augmented service quality and efficient exploitation of existing infrastructures. However, it generates significant security and privacy problems as it contains a combination of heterogeneous, coexisting smart and legacy technologies. The EU-funded SDN-microSENSE project will provide secure, privacy-enabled and resistant-to-cyberattacks tools to ensure electrical power and energy system (EPES) operation and the integrity and confidentiality of communications. The project will adopt an SDN-based technology and implement risk assessment processes to identify the risk level of each EPES component, self-healing abilities to isolate the critical parts of the network, large-scale detection tools, prevention mechanisms and a privacy protection structure.