The scope, scale, and intensity of real, as well as potential attacks, on the Smart Grid have been increasing and thus gaining more attention. An important component of Smart Grid cybersecurity efforts addresses the availability and access to the power and related information and communications infrastructures. We overload the term, Denial-of-Service (DoS), to refer to these attacks in the Smart Grid. In this paper, we provide a holistic and methodical presentation of the DoS attack taxonomies as well as a survey of potential solution techniques to help draw a more concerted and coordinated research into this area, lack of which may have profound consequences. To the best of our knowledge, the literature does not have such a comprehensive survey study of the DoS attacks and solutions for the Smart Grid.

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a novel and emerging, decentralized digital identity approach that enables entities to control and manage their digital identifiers and associated identity data while enhancing trust, privacy, security, and the many other properties identified and analyzed in this paper. The paper provides an overview and classification of the SSI properties, focusing on an in-depth analysis, furthermore, presenting a comprehensive collection of SSI properties that are important for the implementation of the SSI system. In addition, it explores the general SSI process flow, and highlights the steps in which individual properties are important. After the initial purification and classification phase, we then validated properties among experts in the field of Decentralized and Self-Sovereign Identity Management using an online questionnaire, which resulted in a final set of classified and verified SSI properties. The results can be used for further work on definition and standardization of the SSI field.

The scope, scale, and intensity of real, as well as potential, attacks on the Smart Grid have been increasing and thus gaining more attention. An important component of the Smart Grid cybersecurity efforts addresses the availability and access to the power and related information and communications infrastructures. In this paper, we provide a holistic and methodical presentation of taxonomies and solutions for DoS attacks in the Smart Grid. The emerging threats of cybertattacks are raising serious concerns for many critical infrastructures. In this regards, The scope, scale, and intensity of real as well as potential attacks on the Smart Grid are on the rise and with devastating consequences. An important component of Smart Grid cyberse-curity efforts addresses the availability and access to the power and related information and communications infrastructures. In this paper, a holistic and methodical presentation of taxonomies and solution for DoS attacks in the Smart Grid is presented.