Communications network analysis in a SCADA system testbed under cyber-attacks

Miciolino, Estefanía Etchevés; Bernieri, Giuseppe; Pascucci, Federica; Setola, Roberto

doi:10.1109/telfor.2015.7377479

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“…The FACIES testbed is another scaled-down water system developed within the eponymous EU Project [8]. The main aim of this testbed is to contribute to the analysis and identification of cyber threats targeting Critical Infrastructure.…”

Section: Physical Testbedsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unlike [7-9,14] our CWSS-P and CWSS-H employ a cutting-edge S7-1500 PLC which is currently used in the industry. Moreover, the set of attacks executed against the testbeds exploit vulnerabilities at the input/output/working memory of the PLC, which differ from the network-based attacks executed in [7,8,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. The next section describes the design and implementation of our testbeds.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Implementation and Evaluation of Physical, Hybrid, and Virtual Testbeds for Cybersecurity Analysis of Industrial Control Systems

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Industrial Control Systems are an essential part of our daily lives and can be found in industries such as oil, utilities, and manufacturing. Rapid growth in technology has introduced industrial components with network capabilities that allow them to communicate with traditional computer networks, thus increasing their exposure to cyber-attacks. Current research on Industrial Control Systems suffer from lack of technical information as these systems are part of critical infrastructures. To overcome this, researchers have employed different types of testbeds to develop their mechanisms of cyber-attack detection and prevention. This manuscript describes, implements, and evaluates physical, hybrid, and virtual application of a clean water supply system developed for cybersecurity research. The results show that physical testbeds allow an understanding of the behaviour and dynamics of control components like sensors and actuators, which might be affected by external influences such as noise, vibration, temperature, and non-ideal device behaviour. Although, hybrid testbeds reduce the cost of implementation, they ignore the physical dynamics of the system as explained above. Virtual testbeds are the cheapest option in comparison with physical and hybrid testbeds; however, they provide a limited view of the control system operation that could have negative consequences when developing a detection/prevention system.

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Implementation and Evaluation of Physical, Hybrid, and Virtual Testbeds for Cybersecurity Analysis of Industrial Control Systems

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“…In a more-than-ever interconnected world of monitoring and controlling engineered systems, there is the emergence of cyber-attacks which are, today, an important concern for system processes functioning [158,159]. Cyber-attacks typically interfere with the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.…”

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Multi-Agent Systems and Complex Networks: Review and Applications in Systems Engineering

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Systems engineering is an ubiquitous discipline of Engineering overlapping industrial, chemical, mechanical, manufacturing, control, software, electrical, and civil engineering. It provides tools for dealing with the complexity and dynamics related to the optimisation of physical, natural, and virtual systems management. This paper presents a review of how multi-agent systems and complex networks theory are brought together to address systems engineering and management problems. The review also encompasses current and future research directions both for theoretical fundamentals and applications in the industry. This is made by considering trends such as mesoscale, multiscale, and multilayer networks along with the state-of-art analysis on network dynamics and intelligent networks. Critical and smart infrastructure, manufacturing processes, and supply chain networks are instances of research topics for which this literature review is highly relevant.Processes 2020, 8, 312 2 of 29 in a telecommunication system network, nodes (e.g., routers and switches) may suffer over time a degradation in their properties that may lead them to diminish their performance. However, just the daily variation on traffic demand also has an impact on such nodes performance. Unexpected, external intervention such as cyber-attacks or extreme weather conditions may affect the properties, even the topology of a telecommunication system.Intelligent distributed systems are capable of modelling how different parts of the network might work individually and collectively [10]. Ultimately, this is used as support for any decision-making system aiming to achieve better overall system functioning and its consequent performance. Intelligent distributed systems encompass autonomous learning units that can be associated with the nodes of a complex network. These intelligent network nodes are able to act independently and also interact with other nodes to pursue both individual (local) and general system-level targets. The necessary communication between individuals can be represented by links of the complex network connecting their nodes. It is natural to understand such nodes as intelligent agents within a MAS framework. Each agent separately obeying simple rules but working together with other agents makes it possible to approach complex engineering challenges. Intelligent distributed systems have been proposed in a broad range of engineered complex systems [11,12]. Precisely, the review proposed herein focuses only on engineered systems and manufacturing processes, given the wide spectrum of the approached topic. Out of this review fall, then, topics related to social systems analysis such as migration models [13,14] or online social media [15,16]. Similarly, natural systems are out of this review scope. This is the case of computational chemistry [17,18], biology [19,20], and metabolic networks [21,22].Automatic optimisation and control in an engineering system is associated with a near real-time data acquisition and an optimal decision-making. Th...

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“…In a more than ever interconnected world of monitor and control engineered systems, there is the emergence of cyber-attacks which are, today, an important concern for system processes functioning [149,150]. Cyber-attacks typically interfere with the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.…”

Section: Agent-based Complex Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review on Control and Optimisation of Multi-Agent Systems and Complex Networks for Systems Engineering

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Systems Engineering is an ubiquitous discipline of Engineering overlapping industrial, chemical, mechanical, manufacturing, control, software, electrical, and civil engineering. It provides tools for dealing with the complexity and dynamics related to the optimisation of physical, natural, and virtual systems management. This paper presents a review of how multi-agent systems and complex networks theory are brought together to address Systems Engineering and management problems. The review also encompasses current and future research directions both for theoretical fundamentals and applications in Industry. This is made by considering trends such as mesoscale, multiscale, and multilayer networks; along with the state-of-art analysis on network dynamics and intelligent networks. Critical and smart infrastructure, manufacturing processes, and supply chain networks are instances of research topics for which this literature review is highly relevant.

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Communications network analysis in a SCADA system testbed under cyber-attacks

Cited by 17 publications

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Implementation and Evaluation of Physical, Hybrid, and Virtual Testbeds for Cybersecurity Analysis of Industrial Control Systems

Implementation and Evaluation of Physical, Hybrid, and Virtual Testbeds for Cybersecurity Analysis of Industrial Control Systems

Multi-Agent Systems and Complex Networks: Review and Applications in Systems Engineering

A Review on Control and Optimisation of Multi-Agent Systems and Complex Networks for Systems Engineering

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