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      SimaticScan: Towards A Specialised Vulnerability Scanner for Industrial Control Systems

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      Conference name: 4th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2016 (ICS-CSR)
      Conference theme: Cyber Security Research
      Conference date: 23 - 25 August 2016
      Keywords: industrial control systems, vulnerability scanner, programmable logic controllers
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            Abstract

            Over the years, modern Industrial Control Systems (ICS) have become widely computerised and connected via the Internet and are, therefore, potentially vulnerable to cyber attacks. Currently there is a lack of vulnerability scanners specialised to ICS settings. Systems such as PLCScan and ModScan output pertinent information from a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). However, they do not offer any information as to how vulnerable a PLC is to an attack. In this paper, we address these limitations and propose SimaticScan, a vulnerability scanner specialised to Siemens SIMATIC PLCs. Through experimentation in a comprehensive water treatment testbed, we demonstrate SimaticScan’s effectiveness in determining a range of vulnerabilities across three distinct PLCs, including a previously unknown vulnerability in one of the PLCs. Our experiments also show that SimaticScan outperforms the widely used Nessus vulnerability scanner (with relevant ICS-specific plugins deployed).

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            Contributors
            Rob Antrobus
            Sylvain Frey
            Benjamin Green
            Awais Rashid
            Conference
            Publication date: October 2016
            Publication date (Print): October 2016
            Pages: 11-18
            Affiliations
            [0001]Security Lancaster Research Centre Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4WA UK security-centre.lancs.ac.uk
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            DOI: 10.14236/ewic/ICS2016.2
            SO-VID: def80ec8-f6dc-4277-8165-1e51f74c2285
            Copyright © © Antrobus et al. Published byBCS Learning & Development Ltd.Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2016
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            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Conference name: 4th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2016
            Conference acronym: ICS-CSR
            Conference number: 4
            Conference location: Queen’s Belfast University, UK
            Conference date: 23 - 25 August 2016
            Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Conference theme: Cyber Security Research
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

            Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/ICS2016.2
            Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
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            Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing

            ScienceOpen disciplines: Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Keywords: vulnerability scanner,industrial control systems,programmable logic controllers

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