Protecting Industrial Control Systems from Electronic Threats

by Weiss, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9781606501979
• ISBN10: 1606501976
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Momentum Pr

Summary

This book is meant to help both the novice and expert in Information Technology (IT) security and industrial control systems (ICS) gain a better understanding of protecting ICSs from electronic threats. The term "ICS" was chosen as ICSs include Supervisor

Author Biography

Joseph Weiss is an industry expert on control system and electronic security of control systems, with more than 35 years of experience in the energy industry. Mr. Weiss spent more than 14 years at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), where he was the technical leader for a variety of programs including the Nuclear Plant instrumentation and Diagnostics program, the Fossil Plant Instrumentation Controls Program, the Y2K Embedded Systems Program, and the Enterprise infrastructure Security Program. He was as invited speaker at the NIST/NSA Information Security Summit and provided testimony before three House subcommittees and one Senate Committee. Mr. Weiss was tasked to write the White Paper on Industrial Control Systems Security for the Center for Strategic and International Studies Blue Ribbon Panel preparing cyber security recommendations for the Obama administration. Mr. Weiss has received numerous industry awards and is an ISA Fellow and a member of the ISA Engineering Science, and Technology Policy Committee.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Background	p. 1
Definitions	p. 5
Industrial Control System Descriptions	p. 7
Convergence of Industrial Control Systems and Information Technology	p. 25
Differences between Industrial Control Systems and Information Technology	p. 29
Electronic Threats to Industrial Control Systems	p. 43
Myths	p. 53
Current Personnel Status and Needs	p. 59
Information Sharing and Disclosure	p. 63
Industrial Control System Cyber Risk Assessments	p. 87
Selected Industry Activities	p. 89
Industrial Control System Security Trends and Observations	p. 95
Industrial Control System Cyber Security Demonstrations	p. 101
Selected Case Histories: Malicious Attacks	p. 107
Selected Case Histories: Unintentional Incidents	p. 123
Industrial Control System Incident Categorization	p. 147
Recommendations	p. 159
Acronyms	p. 167
Glossary	p. 171
Comparison of Key Definitions	p. 197
CSIS White Paper on Industrial Control Systems	p. 205
Typical Distributed Control System Procurement Specification	p. 223
Notes	p. 301
Further Reading	p. 313
Index	p. 317
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