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Introduction to Smart Meter Penetration Testing
16 March 2011
Introduction to Smart Meter Penetration Testing
IOACTIVE SMART METERING

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Today’s workshop hosted by IoActive is a technical workshop where the audience will learn the process, common pitfalls and specialized attacks against Smart Meters. The goal is to have the audience walk away better prepared to ensure they receive high quality results from their assessors and can determine whether the critical infrastructure they are deploying in the wild have truly been assessed properly for security

 Your workshop leaders:

Security Consultant

Michael Milvich is experienced in exploit development and network and application testing. As a security consultant at IOActive he performs penetration testing; identifies system vulnerabilities; and designs custom security solutions for clients in software development, telecommunications, financial services, and non-profit organizations. Mr. Milvich's focus has been on assessing SCADA systems within the electrical power industry, and he has reviewed numerous vendors including OSISoft, Live Data, and Areva.

 

Director of Services
David Baker is a subject matter expert on information security, CIPS compliance work, and Smart Grid architectures. Baker specializes in developing security requirements and identifying best practices for critical infrastructure and utility system management, having debriefed the Department of Homeland Security on AMI research. Baker has orchestrated large-scale network and application penetration tests, provided a long-term security roadmap and budgetary plans for enterprise customers, and written critical assessments of enterprise cyber security programs.
 

 

Workshop agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Introduction to the workshop

  • Overview of AMI Architecture - meter to "relay" to network to collections to EMS
  • Overview of Meter Architecture - meterology board - disconnect relay - communications board - tamper resistance
  • Overview of Basic chip Architecture - flash, IC, crypto features
  • State of technology today versus 2008/2009
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    10:15

    Morning Coffee

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    10:45

    Threat Analysis

  • Attack Vectors
  • Threat Objectives
  • Threat Actors
  • Reputation, Regulatory, Customers

     

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    11:45

    The Methodology of an Assessment

  • Hardware perspective
        - Glitching attacks
        - Timing
        - Differential Power attacks
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    12:45

    Lunch

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    13:45

    Software perspective

  • Fuzzing of serial line communication
  • Reverse engineering to identify a overflow conditions
  • Communication fuzzing
  • GSM / CDMA / WiMax / Wi-Fi
  • Software Radios
  • Weaponizing a communications board
     - Cryptography and Passcodes
    -  Brute Forcing  


     

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    15:30

    Afternoon Tea

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    16:00

    Field Observations

  • Common pitfalls
  • Discussion of firmware extraction tools pros and cons
  • Recommendations for better security.
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    16:45

    Questions and answers

    Workshop leaders will take your questions from the day

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    17:15

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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