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Vol. 1 · Ed. 2026
CyberGlossary
Entry № 570

IEC 61850

O que é IEC 61850?

IEC 61850An international standard for communications inside electrical substations, covering object-oriented data models (LNs), high-speed messaging (GOOSE), sampled-values measurements (SV), and MMS-based client/server traffic.


IEC 61850 is the international standard family for communications in electrical substation automation, first published in 2003 and now the dominant protocol stack in modern substations. It specifies an object-oriented data model — Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) expose Logical Nodes (LNs) such as PIOC (overcurrent protection), XCBR (circuit breaker), MMXU (measurements) — independent of the underlying transport. On the wire it defines three communication services: MMS-based client/server traffic (e.g. SCADA reads), GOOSE multicast peer-to-peer messages used for time-critical protection signaling (trip commands within milliseconds), and Sampled Values (SV) for digital instrument transformer measurements. IEC 61850 typically runs on dedicated process and station Ethernet networks inside a substation, with the corresponding IEC 62351 standard adding authentication, integrity, and (more rarely) encryption. Security concerns include unauthenticated GOOSE/SV by default, denial of service against the protection bus, malicious IED firmware, and inadequate segmentation between the substation LAN and corporate IT. Compromise of IEC 61850 traffic is the engineering primitive behind the 2016 Industroyer attack and remains a primary OT threat model for utilities.

Exemplos

  1. 01

    A substation deploys IEC 62351-secured GOOSE so that an injected GOOSE trip message from a malicious host on the process bus is rejected by IEDs.

  2. 02

    An OT NDR baselines normal MMS traffic from a substation gateway and alerts when a non-engineering host begins issuing IEC 61850 control writes.

Perguntas frequentes

O que é IEC 61850?

An international standard for communications inside electrical substations, covering object-oriented data models (LNs), high-speed messaging (GOOSE), sampled-values measurements (SV), and MMS-based client/server traffic. Pertence à categoria OT / ICS / IoT da cibersegurança.

O que significa IEC 61850?

An international standard for communications inside electrical substations, covering object-oriented data models (LNs), high-speed messaging (GOOSE), sampled-values measurements (SV), and MMS-based client/server traffic.

Como funciona IEC 61850?

IEC 61850 is the international standard family for communications in electrical substation automation, first published in 2003 and now the dominant protocol stack in modern substations. It specifies an object-oriented data model — Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) expose Logical Nodes (LNs) such as PIOC (overcurrent protection), XCBR (circuit breaker), MMXU (measurements) — independent of the underlying transport. On the wire it defines three communication services: MMS-based client/server traffic (e.g. SCADA reads), GOOSE multicast peer-to-peer messages used for time-critical protection signaling (trip commands within milliseconds), and Sampled Values (SV) for digital instrument transformer measurements. IEC 61850 typically runs on dedicated process and station Ethernet networks inside a substation, with the corresponding IEC 62351 standard adding authentication, integrity, and (more rarely) encryption. Security concerns include unauthenticated GOOSE/SV by default, denial of service against the protection bus, malicious IED firmware, and inadequate segmentation between the substation LAN and corporate IT. Compromise of IEC 61850 traffic is the engineering primitive behind the 2016 Industroyer attack and remains a primary OT threat model for utilities.

Como se defender contra IEC 61850?

As defesas contra IEC 61850 costumam combinar controles técnicos e práticas operacionais, conforme detalhado na definição acima.

Quais são outros nomes para IEC 61850?

Nomes alternativos comuns: IEC 61850 substation, GOOSE / MMS / SV.

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