Title :
SCADAVT-A framework for SCADA security testbed based on virtualization technology
Author :
Almalawi, Abdulmohsen ; Tari, Zahir ; Khalil, Issa ; Fahad, Adil
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & IT, RMIT Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems monitor and control infrastructures and industrial processes such as smart grid power and water distribution systems. Recently, such systems have been attacked, and traditional security solutions have failed to provide an appropriate level of protection. Therefore, it is important to develop security solutions tailored to SCADA systems. However, it is impractical to evaluate such solutions on actual live systems. This paper proposes a SCADA security testbed based on virtualization technology, and introduces a server which is used as a surrogate for water distribution systems. In addition, this paper presents a case study of two malicious attacks to demonstrate how the testbed can easily monitor and control any automatised processes, and also to show how malicious attacks can disrupt supervised processes.
Keywords :
SCADA systems; control engineering computing; production engineering computing; security of data; virtualisation; water supply; SCADA security testbed; SCADAVT-A framework; industrial processes; infrastructure control; live systems; malicious attacks; security solutions; smart grid power; supervisory control and data acquisition system; virtualization technology; water distribution systems; Actuators; Process control; Protocols; Registers; SCADA systems; Security; Servers; SCADA; Security; Simulation; Testbed;
Conference_Titel :
Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2013 IEEE 38th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0536-2
DOI :
10.1109/LCN.2013.6761301