Smart power background to validate user

A system to implement intrusion detection, the system comprising:

• a smart meter;
• a power grid server communicatively coupled to the smart meter, wherein the power grid server comprises:
• a communication module configured to facilitate communication between the power grid server and the smart meter over a network;
• a memory configured to store instructions;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor, in conjunction with the stored instructions, is configured to perform or cause to be performed:
• determine a power line ambiance at a location of a device on which an attempt to access a resource is executed, wherein the power line ambiance is based on a connection of the device and one or more other devices to a power line through the smart meter;
• generate a digest associated with the location of the device based on the power line ambiance, wherein the digest comprises smart and/or non-smart device signatures identified from the power line ambiance;
• and
• provide the digest to one or more servers of an intrusion detection system (IDS) communicatively coupled to the power grid server, wherein the digest is employed to authenticate the attempt to access the resource through:
• a comparison of the digest to previous digests associated with an authorized client of the resource, and
• a comparison of the digest to a list of previously generated digests for a plurality of particular locations stored in a database, in response to a determination that the digest is unrecognizable, subsequent to the comparison with the previous digests associated with the authorized client of the resource,
• wherein the digest is employed in combination with one or more authentication techniques to authenticate the attempt to access the resource, in response to a determination that the attempt is suspicious, and
• wherein the one or more authentication techniques include one or more of:
• a password, an asserted identity, a characterization of typing speed and delays, a location of internet protocol (IP) address, hardware fingerprinting, local weather events, local power events, and activation of one or more previously associated devices or appliances of a known power signature.

A non-transitory computer-readable memory device with instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement intrusion detection by performance or control of performance of operations to:

• determine a power line ambiance at a location of a device on which an attempt to access a resource is executed, wherein the power line ambiance is based on a connection of the device and one or more other devices to a power line;
• generate a digest associated with the location of the device based on the power line ambiance, wherein the digest comprises smart and/or non-smart device signatures identified from the power line ambiance;
• provide the digest to one or more servers of an intrusion detection system (IDS), wherein the digest is employed to authenticate the attempt to access the resource through:
• a comparison of the digest to previous digests associated with an authorized client of the resource, and
• a comparison of the digest to a list of previously generated digests for a plurality of particular locations stored in a database, in response to a determination that the digest is unrecognizable, subsequent to the comparison with the previous digests associated with the authorized client of the resource;
• and
• store the digest in the database as a digest associated with the authorized client of the resource, in response to a determination that the attempt to access the resource is authentic.