Security Assessment of SCADA Protocols

Vinay M. Igure

ISBN 10: 3639435796 / ISBN 13: 9783639435795

Published by AV Akademikerverlag Jul 2012, 2012

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Revision with unchanged content. Modern industrial facilities, such as oil refineries, chemical factories, electric power generation plants, etc. are large, complex, distributed systems. These systems are monitored and controlled by networks of special purpose embedded computing devices such as sensors, actuators, and PLCs. These industrial control networks are commonly called SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) networks. The increasing interconnectivity of SCADA networks has exposed them to a wide range of network security problems. One of the important issues in securing SCADA networks is to identify vulnerabilities in the communication protocols. This book analyses existing qualitative security assessment guidelines, specifically attack and vulnerability taxonomies, and proposes a new framework for organizing information about known attacks and vulnerabilities to find unknown or similar vulnerabilities in new systems. This framework is used to organize information related to known vulnerabilities in SCADA protocols into a taxonomy that provides a systematic methodology for the security assessment of other SCADA protocols. 116 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Security Assessment of SCADA Protocols
• Publisher: AV Akademikerverlag Jul 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639435796
• ISBN 13: 9783639435795
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 7D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 7 millimeters depth
• Weight: 191 grams

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Synopsis

Revision with unchanged content. Modern industrial facilities, such as oil refineries, chemical factories, electric power generation plants, etc. are large, complex, distributed systems. These systems are monitored and controlled by networks of special purpose embedded computing devices such as sensors, actuators, and PLCs. These industrial control networks are commonly called SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) networks. The increasing interconnectivity of SCADA networks has exposed them to a wide range of network security problems. One of the important issues in securing SCADA networks is to identify vulnerabilities in the communication protocols. This book analyses existing qualitative security assessment guidelines, specifically attack and vulnerability taxonomies, and proposes a new framework for organizing information about known attacks and vulnerabilities to find unknown or similar vulnerabilities in new systems. This framework is used to organize information related to known vulnerabilities in SCADA protocols into a taxonomy that provides a systematic methodology for the security assessment of other SCADA protocols.

About the Author

received his PhD and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, USA. He received his BE degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Mysore University, India.He is a member of the IEEE, ACM, ISA and the Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society.