sSCADA: Securing SCADA Infrastructure Communications

Yongge Wang; Bei-Tseng Chu

Paper 2004/265

sSCADA: Securing SCADA Infrastructure Communications

Yongge Wang and Bei-Tseng Chu

Abstract

Distributed control systems (DCS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems were developed to reduce labor costs, and to allow system-wide monitoring and remote control from a central location. Control systems are widely used in critical infrastructures such as electric grid, natural gas, water, and wastewater industries. While control systems can be vulnerable to a variety of types of cyber attacks that could have devastating consequences, little research has been done to secure the control systems. This paper presents a suite of security protocols optimized for SCADA/DCS systems which include: point-to-point secure channels, authenticated broadcast channels, authenticated emergency channels, and revised authenticated emergency channels. These protocols are designed to address the specific challenges that SCADA systems have.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Applications
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Contact author(s): yonwang @ uncc edu
History: 2004-10-15: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2004/265
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2004/265,
      author = {Yongge Wang and Bei-Tseng Chu},
      title = {{sSCADA}: Securing {SCADA} Infrastructure Communications},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2004/265},
      year = {2004},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/265}
}