A privacy-conserving framework based intrusion detection method for detecting and recognizing malicious behaviours in cyber-physical power networks

Abstract

Contemporary Smart Power Systems (SPNs) depend on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) to connect physical devices and control tools. Developing a robust privacy-conserving intrusion detection method involves network and physical data regarding the setups, such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), for defending real data and recognizing cyber-attacks. A key issue in the implementation of SPNs is the security against cyber-attacks, targeting to interrupt SCADA operations and violate data privacy over the usage of penetration and data poisoning attacks. In this paper, a privacy-conserving framework, so-called PC-IDS, is proposed for realizing the privacy and safety features of SPNs through hybrid machine learning approach. The framework includes two key components. Primarily, a data pre-processing component is proposed for cleaning and transforming actual data into a different layout that accomplishes the aim of privacy conservation. Then, an intrusion detection component is proposed using a particle swarm optimization-based probabilistic neural network for the identification and recognition of malicious events. The performance of PC-IDS framework is evaluated by means of two commonly available datasets, i.e. the Power System and UNSW-NB15 datasets. The experimental outcomes highlight that the framework can proficiently protect data of SPNs and determine anomalous behaviours compared to numerous recent compelling state-of-the-art methods with respect to false positive rate (FPR), detection rate (DR) and computational processing time (CPT) by achieving 96.03% of DR, 0.18% FPR for Power System dataset and 95.91% of DR, 0.14% FPR for UNSW-NB15 dataset.