Vulnerability Assessment for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems

Parks, Raymond C.; Rogers, Erica N.

doi:10.1109/msp.2008.160

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“…Another research area which is receiving a lot of attention is the identification of vulnerabilities of existing protocols and equipment [56], [57], as well as on methodologies by which to analyse existing networks in order to detect and mitigate vulnerabilities. These methodologies generally focus on detecting chains of vulnerabilities [58] or developing attack trees [59], as overcoming even low levels of security on a network often involves exploiting a series of several vulnerabilities before effecting a meaningful compromise.…”

Section: B Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to Industrial Control Networks

Galloway

Hancke

2013

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Abstract-An industrial control network is a system of interconnected equipment used to monitor and control physical equipment in industrial environments. These networks differ quite significantly from traditional enterprise networks due to the specific requirements of their operation. Despite the functional differences between industrial and enterprise networks, a growing integration between the two has been observed. The technology in use in industrial networks is also beginning to display a greater reliance on Ethernet and web standards, especially at higher levels of the network architecture. This has resulted in a situation where engineers involved in the design and maintenance of control networks must be familiar with both traditional enterprise concerns, such as network security, as well as traditional industrial concerns such as determinism and response time. This paper highlights some of the differences between enterprise and industrial networks, presents a brief history of industrial networking, gives a high level explanation of some operations specific to industrial networks, provides an overview of the popular protocols in use and describes current research topics. The purpose of this paper is to serve as an introduction to industrial control networks, aimed specifically at those who have had minimal exposure to the field, but have some familiarity with conventional computer networks.

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Section: B Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to Industrial Control Networks

Galloway

Hancke

2013

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

416

193

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“…The main barrier to the current IIoT technological availability is the lack of widespread standards [ 75 , 76 ] and the difficulties in guaranteeing the same level of reliability and security of currently operating wired infrastructures [ 77 ].…”

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Refinery 4.0, a Review of the Main Challenges of the Industry 4.0 Paradigm in Oil & Gas Downstream

Olaizola

Quartulli

Unzueta

et al. 2022

Sensors

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Industry 4.0 concept has become a worldwide revolution that has been mainly led by the manufacturing sector. Continuous Process Industry is part of this global trend where there are aspects of the “fourth industrial revolution” that must be adapted to the particular context and needs of big continuous processes such as oil refineries that have evolved to control paradigms supported by sector-specific technologies where big volumes of operation-driven data are continuously captured from a plethora of sensors. The introduction of Artificial Intelligence techniques can overcome the current limitations of Advanced Control Systems (mainly MPCs) by providing better performance on highly non-linear and complex systems and by operating with a broader scope in terms of signals/data and sub-systems. Moreover, the state of the art of traditional PID/MPC based solutions is showing an asymptotic improvement that requires a disruptive approach in order to reach relevant improvements in terms of efficiency, optimization, maintenance, etc. This paper shows the key aspects in oil refineries to successfully adopt Big Data and Machine Learning solutions that can significantly improve the efficiency and competitiveness of continuous processes.

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“…It should be noted that the order of premises evaluation, although irrelevant in the abstract definition (11), is crucial to avoid a head recursion and a consequent overflow of the local stack during backtrack, when no further paths to the goal can be found in (12).…”

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“…This increasing concern is reflected in the activities of international standardization bodies and affects both general [2]- [6] and specialpurpose [7]- [9] systems. Typical examples of the latter include critical infrastructures such as energy [10], [11] and gas [12], [13] distribution, as well as industrial automation [14]- [18].…”

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A unified class model for checking security policies in ICT infrastructures

Bertolotti

Durante

et al. 2012

2012 IEEE First AESS European Conference on Satellite Telecommunications (ESTEL)

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Automatic conformance checks of security policies is becoming a key issue in large ICT infrastructures that are more and more prone to cyber-attacks, in particular when wireless communication technologies and media are extensively adopted. This paper presents a hierarchical class-based model for the description of a system and its security requirements, that can be profitably used by a computer-aided analysis tool designed to carry out several kinds of policy verification. Our experience, gained in analyzing real systems, confirms that the structure and flexibility of the system description model are critical issues, together with the collection of real data needed to populate the model itself. The proposed solution is able to tolerate and overcome many of the practical limitations that are met when dealing with large and heterogeneous scenarios.978-1-4673-4688-7/12/$31.00 ©2012 IEEE

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Vulnerability Assessment for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems

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Introduction to Industrial Control Networks

Introduction to Industrial Control Networks

Refinery 4.0, a Review of the Main Challenges of the Industry 4.0 Paradigm in Oil & Gas Downstream

A unified class model for checking security policies in ICT infrastructures

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