Researcher Identifies Vulnerabilities in the Smart Grid's Intelligent Electronic Devices
February 26, 2020 -- The research focuses on assessing the security of the smart grid's IEDs and led to the creation of BinARM, a new security technology.
'It's the first large-scale vulnerability database especially for firmware on smart devices,' says Paria Shirani, a PhD candidate at Concordia University's Security Research Centre in Montreal. 'It's also a multi-stage detection engine that identifies vulnerabilities in three orders of magnitude faster than all existing approaches.'
Shirani presented BinARM at the 15th International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment in Paris-Saclay, France, in June.
Her work was funded by Mourad Debbabi’s NSERC/Hydro-Québec/Thales Senior Industrial Research Chair in Smart Grid Security at the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science.
“I’m extremely proud of Paria, who was recently awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship and is heading to Carnegie Mellon University this summer,” says Debbabi, associate dean of research and graduate studies and professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering.
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