As SCADA systems get larger, they necessarily became connected to other common networks for both economic and technological reasons, which have been finally integrated into the Internet. However this advancement in technology also accompanied new kinds of threats to the industry. The SCADA systems also became revealed to cyber attacks, and thereby the critical infrastructures operated by the SCADA system are also in danger. In this situation it is very important to define and classify the potential risks by the threats for building countermeasures against them.
There are various internal threats and external threats to SCADA systems from various categories. In the first category, there is a threat posed by a company’s own employees. Company insiders have access to internal controls and data, and either by accident or malicious intent can cause equipment outages. In the second category, there are organized groups with a specific goal like terrorists. A third category of threat is the threat posed by casual hackers. When considering the closed characteristics of SCADA systems in elec...
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“Improving Security of Oil Pipeline SCADA Systems Using Service-Oriented Architectures” is an article written by Nary Subramanian in 2008. The article introduces a new computer system that will improve a current computer system that runs oil pipelines. The purpose of this article was to convince the audience that the new computer system will improve the security and enhance the feasibility of the oil pipeline management. This essay analyzes rhetorical concepts the author used to convey his idea through navigation by organization and presentation, understanding through audience and research, and credibility through author. By analyzing this rhetorical concepts, the author will see whether these concepts where effective at conveying the purpose of the article.
Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet project requirements (PMBOK Guide, 2008). Using this definition, it is made evident that the parties involved in the Denver International Airport (DIA) Baggage System project in the 1990’s failed at applying basic organizational practices towards managing the triple constraint of scope, time, and cost goals. The combination of inherent risks, uncertainties, and dysfunctional decision making geared the project towards disappointment while simultaneously designating it as a text book example of what not do when taking on a complex project. By looking at the key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats we can pull together a basic plan of action that would have set the DIA’s baggage handling system as a marvel model of rapid automation.
Physical and environmental security programs are generally considered to be a collection of mechanisms and controls put into place that help ensure the availability of information technology capabilities. These programs protect an organization from fire, flood, theft, power failure, intentional, and even unintentional damage through negligence. Implementation of these programs at the organizational level can take place in a number of ways but most organizations choose to follow the application of a body of standards, usually set forth by an organization such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Once such body of standards put forth by ISO/IEC is 27002, Information technology – Security techniques – Code of practice for information secur...
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Cyber security is the designing, creating, using, and repairing most technological and mechanical equipment. This includes programing and creating new technology before it is mass produced in order to insure safety and quality. It also cover the use of programs to protect and fix technological and mechanical equipment from malfunctions, viruses, and hackers. Lastly, cyber security includes the repairing and upkeep of most electronically designed systems. This job is important because most of today’s world is entirely made up of system that need to be protected, maintained, and constantly improved. This jobs needed in order to keep developed countries stable and able to keep developing,
United States. Sandia National Laboratories. (2012, April 24). National Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA). Retrieved from http://energy.sandia.gov/?page_id=859
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Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) is a concept that relates to the preparedness and response to serious incidents that involve the critical infrastructure of a region or nation. Eliminating threats is impossible, so protecting against them without disrupting business innovation and growth is a
The main goals of DTL Power are to maximize uptime, maintain a strong security, and remain profitable. Additionally, DTL Power also believes that it benefits our organization to ensure that we collaborate with other organizations like Avisitel and the Federal government to help safeguard DTL Power’s systems. For example, Avisitel makes up a portion of the internet’s backbone and any downtime that affects Avisitel may also affect DTL Power. Also, the Federal government provides technical advice and services, as well as provides research money for the development of cybersecurity technologies that DTL may utilize. Finally, various decisions were made and controls adapted that not only benefitted DTL Power but its employees as well. By implementing effective policies and controls and maintaining a dynamic defense strategy ensures that DTL Power can safeguard its information systems.
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Almost every business deploys the traditional security based, methods to combat the threats of cybercrime; however, this is not sufficient to fully erase the threats. Any risk based method must look at what is leaving the IT environment, as well as the data inflowing, because, what is going out holds possibly greater significance than the traditional bastion based security methods (Peltier, 2010). Organizations must comprehend how visible they are to online criminal in regard to, targets of interest, attack routes, and possible process vulnerabilities. So to better defend against attack, a simple equation provides the underpinnings of the numerical system for rating risks and is expressed by the following: Risk = consequence × (threat × vulnerability) (Peltier, 2010). This equation is superior to the standard equation that only factors in threat and vulnerability and should be used for calculating
Different authors have reviewed the cyber terrorism from different angles. Most of them have focused on the aims and objectives which terrorist wants to accomplish through cyber warfare. Moreover they have stressed over the need to the measures taken to combat cyber-attacks by terrorists.
Unequivocally speaking, the threat of a cyber-attack has become one of the most critical domestic and national security challenges we face as a nation today. Infrastructures supporting government operations are ...