Extending the cyber-attack landscape for SCADA-based critical infrastructure

Nicholas R. Rodofile, Kenneth Radke and Ernest Foo

International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 2019, vol. 25, issue C, 14-35

Abstract: The move from point-to-point serial communication to traditional information technology (IT) networks has created new challenges in providing cyber-security for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems in critical infrastructure. Current research on the attack landscape for critical infrastructure concentrates on either IT-based or protocol specific attacks. However, there is limited research focus on “the bigger picture”, the combination of IT attacks and critical infrastructure protocol attacks, and little consideration of cyber-attacks targeting an entire (SCADA)-based critical infrastructure system. Due to such narrow research, there is a complete lack of focus when comprehending full-scale cyber attacks on SCADA-based critical infrastructure systems. As a result, new attacks combining various vulnerabilities in engineering systems and IT systems are yet to be discovered.

Keywords: Cyber-attack framework; Critical infrastructure attack; DNP3; SCADA security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcip.2019.01.002

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