A study on optimization of security function for reducing vulnerabilities in SCADA

Author

Kim, Sung-Hwan ; Eom, Jung-Ho ; Chung, Tai-Myoung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon, South Korea

fYear

2012

fDate

26-28 June 2012

Firstpage

65

Lastpage

69

Abstract

One of the most significant current discussions in cyber security is cyber attack on supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). Stuxnet such as cyber-attacks on SCADA has become more precise and unique. In this paper, we describe the SCADA System and characteristics of cyber-attacks targeting on SCADA system. We also explain vulnerabilities of SCADA quantitatively. To this end, we proposed concept and methodology for reducing vulnerabilities of SCADA system by optimizing security functions.

Keywords

SCADA systems; computer network reliability; computer network security; invasive software; optimisation; SCADA system; Stuxnet; cyber attack; cyber security; security function optimization; supervisory control and data acquisition; vulnerability reduction; Computer security; Educational institutions; Optimization; SCADA systems; Software; Cyber-attack; Function grouping; SCADA; Stuxnet; The Optimization of Security Function; Vulnerability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare and Digital Forensic (CyberSec), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1425-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CyberSec.2012.6246099

Filename

6246099