scada

Critical infrastructures are important to the national interest and people’s everyday life. US National Strategy for Homeland Security has identified 14 areas for critical infrastructure protection. Some of them are information and telecommunication, food energy, water, transportation, finance and banking, emergency services, chemical industry, public health, power grid etc. At the heart and soul of nearly every one of these critical infrastructures is the SCADA (supervisory, control, and data acquisition) system. Therefore, the security of the SCADA system has become a central issue. Unfortunately current security technologies deployed in the SCADA system have many flaws accompanied by endless break-in reports.

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Attached sample of SCADA Security Checklist that covering area such as:
Identify all connections to SCADA networks
Disconnect unnecessary connections to the SCADA network
Evaluate and strengthen the security of any remaining connections to the SCADA network
Harden SCADA networks by removing or disabling unnecessary services
Do not rely on proprietary protocols to protect your system
Implement the security features provided by device and system vendors

SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) Definition.

"...Industrial control system..."

Industrial control system: a computer system monitoring and controlling a process. The process can be industrial, infrastructure or facility based as described below:

- Industrial processes include those of manufacturing, production, power generation, fabrication, and refining, and may run in continuous, batch, repetitive, or discrete modes.