Paper Info
Title
Improving Network Security Monitoring For Industrial Control Systems
Abstract
Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) technology plays an important role in the automation architectures of several critical infrastructures such as Industrial Control Systems (ICS), controlling equipment in contexts such as chemical processes, factory lines, power production plants or power distribution grids, just to mention a few examples.Despite their importance, PLCs constitute one of the weakest links in ICS security, frequently due to reasons such as the absence of secure communication mechanisms, authenticated access or system integrity checks. While events such as the Stuxnet worm have raised awareness for this problem, industry has slowly reacted, either due to reliability or cost concerns.This paper introduces the Shadow Security Unit, a low-cost device deployed in parallel with a PLC or Remote Terminal Unit (RTU), being capable of transparently intercepting its communications control channels and physical process I/O lines to continuously assess its security and operational status. The proposed device does not require significant changes to the existing control network, being able to work in standalone or integrated within an ICS protection framework.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2015
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 IFIP/IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTEGRATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT (IM)
Industrial Control Systems, Critical Infrastructure Protection, SCADA, Programmable Logic Controllers
Field
DocType
Citations 
Control system security,Computer science,Computer security,Network security,Computer network,Automation,Industrial control system,Security service,Programmable logic controller,SCADA,Network Access Control
Conference
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.65
2
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tiago Cruz15611.66
Jorge Barrigas290.65
Jorge Proença390.65
Antonio Graziano4212.73
S. Panzieri511013.09
Leonid Lev690.65
Paulo Simoes710716.18