What is PD IEC TS 62351‑100‑3 about?
Power System Management allows our customers to select important power supply parameters over a digital communication interface. PD IEC TS 62351 is a series on power systems management and associated information exchange. PD IEC TS 62351‑100‑3 is a technical specification, that describes test cases of data and communication security for telecontrol equipment, Substation Automation Systems [SAS] and telecontrol systems, including front-end functions of SCADA. The goal of PD IEC TS 62351‑100‑3 is to enable interoperability by providing a standard method of testing protocol implementations to verify that a device fulfils the requirement of IEC 62351-3.
The scope of PD IEC TS 62351‑100‑3 is the specification of common available procedures and definitions for conformance and/or interoperability testing to ensure conformity to IEC 62351-3. The conformance test cases defined here are focused to verify the conformant integration of the underlying authentication/encryption protocol (TLS), as specified in IEC 62351-3, to protect TCP/IP based communications. PD IEC TS 62351‑100‑3 deals with data and communication security conformance testing.
Note 1: PD IEC TS 62351‑100‑3 is not intended to test the underlying authentication/encryption protocol required by IEC 62351-3 to be implemented over TCP/IP (TLS). The conformance testing of the authentication/encryption protocol over TCP/IP is outside the scope of PD IEC TS 62351‑100‑3.
Note 2: safety or EMC are not covered in PD IEC TS 62351‑100‑3.
Who is PD IEC TS 62351‑100‑3 for?
PD IEC TS 62351‑100‑3 on power systems management is useful for:
- Telecommunication sector
- Software engineers
- Design engineers
- IT sector
Why should you use PD IEC TS 62351‑100‑3?
Power systems management and associated information exchange enable the power supply to communicate important information about the status of the power system upstream to the system or board management controller. PD IEC TS 62351‑100‑3 is a technical specification that describes test cases for conformance testing of telecontrol equipment or systems integrating the IEC 62351-3 security extension for profiles including TCP/IP.
In addition to the test cases described in PD IEC TS 62351‑100‑3, there are further test cases necessary for TLS base protocol RFC as well as test cases depending on the content provided in the certificates. An example may be the RBAC extension specified in IEC 62351-8 or certificate profiles defined in IEC 62351-9. Using PD IEC TS 62351‑100‑3 you can describe test cases of data and communication security for telecontrol equipment, Substation Automation Systems [SAS] and telecontrol systems, including front-end functions of SCADA.
