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Wide-Area SCADA System with Distributed Security Framework

  • Zhang, Yang;Chen, Jun-Liang
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.597-605
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    • 2012
  • With the smart grid coming near, wide-area supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) becomes more and more important. However, traditional SCADA systems are not suitable for the openness and distribution requirements of smart grid. Distributed SCADA services should be openly composable and secure. Event-driven methodology makes service collaborations more real-time and flexible because of the space, time and control decoupling of event producer and consumer, which gives us an appropriate foundation. Our SCADA services are constructed and integrated based on distributed events in this paper. Unfortunately, an event-driven SCADA service does not know who consumes its events, and consumers do not know who produces the events either. In this environment, a SCADA service cannot directly control access because of anonymous and multicast interactions. In this paper, a distributed security framework is proposed to protect not only service operations but also data contents in smart grid environments. Finally, a security implementation scheme is given for SCADA services.

Security Issues & Application in Korea SCADA

  • Kim, Hak-Man;Kang, Dong-Joo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.21 no.9
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    • pp.95-100
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    • 2007
  • The importance of communication security is increased in the power industry. The representative communication network of power industry is the SCADA(Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems. The SCADA system has been used for remote measurement and control in the power industry. Recently, many studies of SCADA network security have been carried out around the world. In this paper, we introduce recent security issues in the SCADA network and propose the application of a symmetric encryption method to the Korea SCADA network.

A Security Analysis of a Key Management Scheme for PCS/SCADA Sensor Networks (PCS/SCADA 센서 네트워크용 키 관리 프로토콜에 대한 보안 분석)

  • Park, DongGook
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.123-131
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    • 2009
  • Process Control Systems (PCSs) or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have recently been added to the already wide collection of wireless sensor networks applications. The PCS/SCADA environment is somewhat more amenable to the use of heavy cryptographic mechanisms such as public key cryptography than other sensor application environments. The sensor nodes in the environment, however, are still open to devastating attacks such as node capture, which makes designing a secure key management challenging. Recently, Nilsson et al. proposed a key management scheme for PCS/SCADA, which was claimed to provide forward and backward secrecies. In this paper, we define four different types of adversaries or attackers in wireless sensor network environments in order to facilitate the evaluation of protocol strength. We then analyze Nilsson et al. 's protocol and show that it does not provide forward and backward secrecies against any type of adversary model.

Performance Analysis of Network-based Data Transmission Protocol between Railway Signaling and SCADA Systems (열차제어시스템과 SCADA 장치간 네트워크 기반 데이터 전송 프로토콜의 성능분석)

  • Hwang, Jong-Gyu;Lee, Jae-Ho;Jo, Hyun-Jeong;Lee, Jong-Woo
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.55 no.9
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    • pp.485-490
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    • 2006
  • According to the computerization of railway signaling systems, the interface link between the signaling systems has been replaced by the digital communication channel. At the same time, the importance of the communication link is more pronounced than before. In this paper, new Network-based protocol between railway signaling and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system) has designed and the overview of designed protocol is briefly represented. And also this paper addresses analysis of newly designed train control systems. Fame error rates of the data transmissions are calculated and compared for the two cases that the CTC (Centralized Traffic Control)/SCADA has an extra data transmission error control (CRC16) besides the inherent error control of the Ethernet and that the CTC/SCADA has no extra data transmission error control. With simulation results it has been verified that the additional error control code contributes to lowering the frame error rate. It will be expected to increase the safety, reliability and efficiency of maintenance of the signaling systems by using the designed protocol for railway signaling system.

A SCADA Testbed Implementation Architecture for Security Assessment (SCADA 시스템의 보안성 평가를 위한 테스트베드 구성)

  • Lee, Jong-Joo;Kim, Seog-Joo;Kang, Dong-Joo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.50-56
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    • 2010
  • Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems (SCADAs) is real-time monitor and control systems. SCADA systems are used to monitor or control chemical and transportation processes, in municipal water supply systems, electric power generation, transmission and distribution, gas and oil pipelines, and other distributed processes. SCADA refers to a large-scale distributed system. The supervisory control system is placed on top of a real time control system to control external processes. Emerging security technologies and security devices are decreasing the vulnerability of the power system against cyber threats. Dealing with these threats and analyzing vulnerabilities is an important task for equipment such as RTU, IED and FEP. To reduce such risks, we develop such a SCADA testbed. This paper presents the development of a testbed designed to assess the vulnerabilities SCADA networks(including serial communication).

Key Distribution Process for Encryption of SCADA Communication using Game Theory applied Multiagent System

  • Kim, Hak-Man;Kang, Dong-Joo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.23 no.11
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    • pp.34-43
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    • 2009
  • SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system has been used for remote measurement and control on the critical infrastructures as well as modem industrial facilities. As cyber attacks increase on communication networks, SCADA network has been also exposed to cyber security problems. Especially, SCADA systems of energy industry such as electric power, gas and oil are vulnerable to targeted cyber attack and terrorism Recently, many research efforts to solve the problems have made progress on SCADA network security. In this paper, flexible key distribution concept is proposed for improving the security of SCADA network using Multiagent System (MAS).

Development of Unified SCADA System Based on IEC61850 in Wave-Offshore Wind Hybrid Power Generation System (파력-해상풍력 복합발전시스템의 IEC61850기반 통합 SCADA시스템 개발)

  • Lee, Jae-Kyu;Lee, Sang-Yub;Kim, Tae-Hyoung;Ham, Kyung-Sun
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.65 no.5
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    • pp.811-818
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    • 2016
  • This paper suggests a structure of power control system in floating wave-offshore wind hybrid power generation system. We have developed an unified SCADA(Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system which can be used to monitor and control PCS(Power Conversion System) based on IEC61850. The SCADA system is essential to perform the algorithm like proportional distribution and data acquisition, monitoring, active power, reactive power control in hybrid power generation system. IEC61850 is an international standard for electrical substation automation systems. It was made to compensate the limitations of the legacy industrial protocols such as Modbus. In order to test the proposed SCADA system and algorithm, we have developed the wind-wave simulator based Modbus. We have designed a protocol conversion device based on real-time Linux for the communication between Modbus and IEC61850. In this study, SCADA system consists of four 3MW class wind turbines and twenty-four 100kW class wave force generator.

A Forward & Backward Secure Key Management in Wireless Sensor Networks for PCS/SCADA

  • Park, Dong-Gook
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.98-106
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    • 2009
  • Process Control Systems (PCSs) or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have recently been added to the already wide collection of wireless sensor networks applications. The PCS/SCADA environment is somewhat more amenable to the use of heavy cryptographic mechanisms such as public key cryptography than other sensor application environments. The sensor nodes in the environment, however, are still open to devastating attacks such as node capture, which makes designing a secure key management challenging. In this paper, a key management scheme is proposed to defeat node capture attack by offering both forward and backward secrecies. Our scheme overcomes the pitfalls which Nilsson et al.'s scheme suffers from, and is not more expensive than their scheme.

Security Technology for SCADA Communication Data (SCADA 통신 데이터 보호 기술)

  • Kim, Hak-Man
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.217-219
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    • 2008
  • SCADA(Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is popular control and monitor areas not only in critical infrastructures such as electric power, gas, oil but also industrial applications. Increasement of cyber attack technique and frequency threats secure operation of SCADA systems. Recently many researches have been studied for protecting SCADA system against cyber attacks. This paper introduces overall security technologies in SCADA systems.

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Security Issues in SCADA Network (SCADA 네트워크 보안 이슈)

  • Kim, Hak-Man;Kang, Dong-Joo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.11b
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    • pp.46-47
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    • 2007
  • SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system has been used fur remote measurement and control on the critical infrastructures as well as modem industrial facilities. As cyber attacks increase on communication networks. SCADA network has been also exposed to cyber security problems. Especially, SCADA systems of energy industry such as electric power, gas and oil are vulnerable to targeted cyber attack and terrorism. Recently, many research efforts to solve the problems have made progress on SCADA network security. In this paper, we introduce recent security issue of SCADA network and propose the application of encryption method to Korea SCADA network.

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