Re: SCADA

From: mdfranz@io.com
Date: Sun Jul 07 2002 - 23:00:04 EDT


No hands-on experience but I've done a little digging on the topic. Most
of the info (whitepapers, academic articles, prezos) is the normal blah
blah blah best practices (policy/firewall/ids/pentest) vs. low level
details of specific control system vulnerabilities.

The most interesting things I ran across (sorry no URLs but they should be
in google):

Barry C. Ezell, _Risks of Cyber Attack to Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition for Water Supply_ (Master's Thesis, UVA, 1998)

Joe Wiess, _Information Security Needs and Issues for Control Systems_
(Prezo at EEI/AGA IT Conference, 14 Jan '02)

There were a few interesting prezos at the ICCC (Common Criteria) meeting
on archictectural security issues for control systems a month or so ago
but they still haven't released the CD-ROMs yet.

Work is being done at Argonne/Sandia National labs on this type of stuff.
Also NIST (especially PCSRF
http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/processcontrol/)

Riptech is also active on the commercial side.

BTW, there is a conference at the end of the month in Vancouver on SCADA
security that might be promising. See http://www.kemaseminars.com

- mdf

> Has anyone had any experience with SCADA systems?
>
>
> Gaziel Avishay,
> Information Risk Management
> KPMG Somech-Chaikin
> 972-3-6848606
>

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