• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.295-310
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• 2014

DCS (Distributed Control System), the main control system of power plants, is an automated system for enhancing operational efficiency by monitoring, tuning and real-time operation. DCS is becoming more intelligent and open systems as Information technology are evolving. In addition, there are a large amount of investment to enable proactive facility management, maintenance and risk management through the predictive diagnostics. However, new upcoming weaponized malware, such as Stuxnet designed for disrupting industrial control system(ICS), become new threat to the main control system of the power plant. Even though these systems are not connected with any other outside network. The main control systems used in the power plant usually have been used for more than 10 years. Also, this system requires the extremely high availability (rapid recovery and low failure frequency). Therefore, installing updates including security patches is not easy. Even more, in some cases, installing security updates can break the warranty by the vendor's policy. If DCS is exposed a potential vulnerability, serious concerns are to be expected. In this paper, we conduct the penetration test by using NESSUS, a general-purpose vulnerability scanner under the simulated environment configured with the Ovation version 1.5. From this result, we suggest a log analysis method to detect the security infringement and react the incident effectively.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.60 no.4
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• pp.492-498
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• 2022

Process control systems used in most domestic petrochemical corporates today are based on the Windows platforms. As technology leans toward opened environment, the exposure risk of control systems is increasing. However, not many companies are preparing for various cyberattacks due to lack of awareness and misunderstanding of cyber intrusion. This study investigated the extent of how much exposed the petrochemical process control system is to security threats and suggested practical measures to reduce OT cybersecurity vulnerabilities. To identify the cyber threat status of process control systems, vulnerabilities of the Windows platform, a principal cyber threat factor, have been analyzed. For research, three major DCS providers in Korea and the discontinuation of Windows platform of 635 control systems were investigated. It was confirmed that 78% of the survey subjects were still operating in the discontinued windows platforms, and those process control systems were operated in a state vulnerable to cyber intrusions. In order to actively cope with these cyber threats, legal regulations such as designation of critical infrastructure for major petrochemical facilities which is implemented in advanced countries such as the United States are needed. Additionally, it is necessary to take the initiative in eradicating security threats to the process control systems by aggressively introducing security solutions provided from existing DCS suppliers. This paper was submitted to Professor Ko JaeWook's retirement anniversary issue.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.10
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• pp.3607-3623
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• 2014

The increasing demand in promoting cloud computing in either business or other areas requires more security of a cloud storage system. Traditional cloud storage systems fail to protect data integrity information (DII), when the interactive messages between the client and the data storage server are sniffed. To protect DII and support public verifiability, we propose a data integrity verification scheme by deploying a designated confirmer signature DCS as a building block. The DCS scheme strikes the balance between public verifiable signatures and zero-knowledge proofs which can address disputes between the cloud storage server and any user, whoever acting as a malicious player during the two-round verification. In addition, our verification scheme remains blockless and stateless, which is important in conducting a secure and efficient cryptosystem. We perform security analysis and performance evaluation on our scheme, and compared with the existing schemes, the results show that our scheme is more secure and efficient.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.335-341
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• 2017

The main control room (MCR) in advanced nuclear power plants (NPPs) has changed from analog to digital control system (DCS). Operation and control have become more automated, centralized, and accurate due to the digitalization of NPPs, which has improved the efficiency and security of the system. New issues associated with human reliability inevitably arise due to the adoption of new accident procedures and digitalization of main control rooms in NPPs. The LingAo II NPP is the first digital NPP in China to apply the state-oriented procedure. In order to address issues related to human reliability analysis for DCS and DCS + state-oriented procedure, the Hunan Institute of Technology conducted a research project based on a cooperative agreement with the LingDong Nuclear Power Co. Ltd. This paper is a brief introduction to the project.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.499-507
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• 2016

The era of IoT, which figures exchanging data from the internet between things is coming. Recently, former electric power energy policy paradigm, namely Supply side paradigm, is changing, because electric power energy consumption is rapidly increasing. As new paradigm for this limit, convergence of existing electric power grid and ICT(Information and Communication Technology) will accelerate intellectualization of electric power device, its operation system. This change brought opened electric power grid. Consequently, attacks to the national electric power grid are increasing. On this paper, we will analyze security threats of existing IoT, discuss security weakness on electric power industry IoT and suggest needed security requirements, security technology.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.293-300
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• 2018

This study explored the security of Industry 4.0 such as security trends and security threats in Industry 4.0, and security system in Industry 4.0. The threat elements in Industry 4.0 are changing from ICT to IoT and to CPS security, so security paradigm and security System should change accordingly. In particular, environmental and administrative security are more important to solve CPS security. The fourth industry-age security should change to customized security for individual systems, suggesting that the security technology that combines hardware and software in product production design should change from the beginning of development. The security system of the fourth industry proposes design and implementation as a CPS security system as a security system that can accommodate various devices and platforms from a security system in a single system such as a network to an individual system.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.345-353
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• 2015

Security Management System is a system which operates in the security control center for security control. All living things across the Internet in recent years, with the rapid increase in the subscriber base has increased the need for network security dramatically depending on yirueojim through web services, thus cyber security sheriff, I have a big issue to build a security management system, each agency and perform control tasks. But the security functional requirements for security management system would not specified exactly, in developing a security management system to build and design a situation that PP's needs require a lot of trouble. In this paper, we develop a Managed Security System Protection Profile for the security functional requirements specification of the security management system.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.273-278
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• 2016

Disasters are linked with some attributes of modern society in diversity, complexity and unpredictability, so various approach and remedies of them will appease the nation's anxiety upon them. For this reason, in this paper we review the building plans and its application and its application Province pros and cons of intelligent video surveillance analysis system for social security, the future proposed service is the safety of people while performing a comprehensive urban traffic control functions as a video monitoring system for social security and to ensure, to prevent crime and accidents, it is to crack down on criminal offenses in advance expected to protect the property of citizens and public facilities.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2015

In this paper, we analyze the research trend and problems of the existing virtualization technology and present the most applicable virtualization technology in order to apply the technology to the operation of novel reliable networks. By using the virtualization technology, there is advantage in that the utilization of resource becomes higher and maintenance cost goes down. While, from the security perspective, there exist advantage in using the virtualization, it also introduces new vulnerabilities due to the adoption. Thus it is necessary to analyze the problem and establish the strategy to solve it. Therefore we derive threat elements to the virtualized system, analyze and describe the virtualization security policy.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.173-180
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• 2016

In this paper, a design of transceiver module for real-time wire and wireless robust integrated security system to solve the problem of conventional security system and its transceiver module is proposed. The presented robust integrated security system is designed with RF control unit and wireless transceiver module. A RF controller in transceiver module works as a low-power RF transceiver system. It is designed to use specific bandwidth stored in registers and manipulate RF power of transceiver by accessing the random values of registers. Operation algorithm for RF transceiver module is also presented. The designed transceiver module and the operation algorithm are implemented and verified by experiments.