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<p>Power system operations are conducted through communication systems that are mapped to standards, protocols, ports, and source–destination addresses. Power networks supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA) communication is part of the critical information infrastructure, subjected to increasing risk and vulnerability from cyberattacks. As information technology (IT) in internet-connected environments through optical fibre networks is intricately intertwined with operations technology (OT), it significantly increases complexity as a successful OT attack has the potential to damage power system equipment and cause a large-scale cascading outage. In the IT-OT interwoven regime, where some overlap is inevitable, securing the future ecosystem faces fresh challenges in the quantum endeavour, where traditional encryption is anticipated to be insufficient. Real-time situational awareness is a standard term with implications and applications in both power systems and cybersecurity for dealing with streaming data, a computational problem in essence. This paper demonstrates an integrated Qiskit through two different quantum circuit implementations for encoding, encrypting, and decrypting an open-source packet dataset of six fields treated as six variables for corresponding interconnected SCADA centres. It found that the results of encrypted and decrypted traffic data match with the identical keys of Alice and Bob for the dataset samples, and thus are encouraging for the possible future framework development of real-time streaming data. It highlights the opportunities and challenges in securing SCADA communication in a plausible quantum computing and communication regime. While the topic entails the intersection of many domains, in the end, the computational paradigm forms one of the building blocks of the ecosystem owing to the reality of managing huge data, real-time streaming in nature, and the adequacy of computational resources. Nonetheless, the inevitable trade-off scenario of software and hardware interface for achieving the required performance vis-à-vis computation time is another criterion.</p>

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Power networks SCADA communication cybersecurity, a Qiskit implementation

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    2025年8月21日

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  • Hillol Biswas

摘要

Power system operations are conducted through communication systems that are mapped to standards, protocols, ports, and source–destination addresses. Power networks supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA) communication is part of the critical information infrastructure, subjected to increasing risk and vulnerability from cyberattacks. As information technology (IT) in internet-connected environments through optical fibre networks is intricately intertwined with operations technology (OT), it significantly increases complexity as a successful OT attack has the potential to damage power system equipment and cause a large-scale cascading outage. In the IT-OT interwoven regime, where some overlap is inevitable, securing the future ecosystem faces fresh challenges in the quantum endeavour, where traditional encryption is anticipated to be insufficient. Real-time situational awareness is a standard term with implications and applications in both power systems and cybersecurity for dealing with streaming data, a computational problem in essence. This paper demonstrates an integrated Qiskit through two different quantum circuit implementations for encoding, encrypting, and decrypting an open-source packet dataset of six fields treated as six variables for corresponding interconnected SCADA centres. It found that the results of encrypted and decrypted traffic data match with the identical keys of Alice and Bob for the dataset samples, and thus are encouraging for the possible future framework development of real-time streaming data. It highlights the opportunities and challenges in securing SCADA communication in a plausible quantum computing and communication regime. While the topic entails the intersection of many domains, in the end, the computational paradigm forms one of the building blocks of the ecosystem owing to the reality of managing huge data, real-time streaming in nature, and the adequacy of computational resources. Nonetheless, the inevitable trade-off scenario of software and hardware interface for achieving the required performance vis-à-vis computation time is another criterion.