A Survey on Existing SCADA Security Standards

Modern SCADA have shifted towards the adoption of off-the-shelf components for computation and communication. This makes SCADA more vulnerable to malicious attacks. Current efforts to consider security in SCADA standards may help in the protection of SCADA by supporting all engineering processes and by fostering the development of a market for security products and services. This work is a survey on the current efforts to set up such standards. We focus on the main efforts characterizing the power sector, and try to make patent how some of them are now taking a general relevance, so as to propose a generic framework for industrial control security. However, it is early to conclude whether this attempt will succeed, considered the considerable number of competing standards proposed by other generic and sector specific organizations.

STEFANINI Alberto;  CIAPESSONI Emanuele;  MASERA Marcelo; 

2008-07-31

ANIPLA - Associazione Nazionale Italiana per l'Automazione

JRC34270