Not all SCADA is Equal: Impact of Control Models on ICS Threat Landscape

Abstract

There are almost as many ways to implement Industrial Control Systems as there are ways to control industrial systems. This produces a wide-varying range of possible architectures for the SCADA networks that control them. This paper organizes SCADA networks based on these various control architectures in order to evaluate how different controlmodels and architectures can affect the threat model.We observe that distributed control, with control logic in the endpoints, is more susceptible to attacks on SCADA endpoints and that distributed state architectures,with centralized control, ismore susceptible to attacks on the SCADA master.

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Publication date: September 2014

Publication date (Print): September 2014

Pages: 72-77

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École Polytechnique de Montréal

Hamburg University of Technology

Royal Military College of Canada

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/ICSCSR2014.10

Copyright statement: © Antoine Lemay et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. 2nd International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2014 (ICS-CSR 2014), St Pölten, Austria

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Conference name: 2nd International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2014 (ICS-CSR 2014)

Conference acronym: ICSCSR

Conference number: 2

Conference location: St Pölten, Austria

Conference date: 11-12 September 2014

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2014 (ICS-CSR 2014)

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