Host protection strategies for industrial control systems

McIntyre, Anne; Lindqvist, Ulf; Peterson, Brian; Tudor, Zachary

doi:10.1109/ths.2012.6459830

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“…Similarly, McIntyre, Lindqvist, Peterson, and Tudor, also analyze application whitelisting as a way to lower complexity, cost and administrative overhead [10]. Munro discusses the limitations of traditional defenses in the case of the Flame virus and argues for proactive defenses such as application whitelisting as part of a layered security approach [11].…”

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Securing industrial automation and control systems using application whitelisting

Obermeier

Schierholz²,

Hristova

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA)

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Application whitelisting is a method for establishing security by restricting systems to only execute applications that are on a given list -the white list. One of the main questions when using such technology within industrial control systems is whether anti-virus software becomes obsolete, and whether security patches of the underlying system are still required. To answer these questions, we have evaluated several application whitelisting solutions and present the evaluation method and the condensed test results. In addition, we highlight the difficulties for end users to evaluate of the level of protection that is provided by such whitelisting software. As a conclusion, we have identified several benefits of application whitelisting software, but also argue why whitelisting alone is not the "silver bullet", which -once deployed -does not need attention anymore.

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confidence: 99%