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Extending the cyber-attack landscape for SCADA-based critical infrastructure

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  • Rodofile, Nicholas R.
  • Radke, Kenneth
  • Foo, Ernest

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The move from point-to-point serial communication to traditional information technology (IT) networks has created new challenges in providing cyber-security for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems in critical infrastructure. Current research on the attack landscape for critical infrastructure concentrates on either IT-based or protocol specific attacks. However, there is limited research focus on “the bigger picture”, the combination of IT attacks and critical infrastructure protocol attacks, and little consideration of cyber-attacks targeting an entire (SCADA)-based critical infrastructure system. Due to such narrow research, there is a complete lack of focus when comprehending full-scale cyber attacks on SCADA-based critical infrastructure systems. As a result, new attacks combining various vulnerabilities in engineering systems and IT systems are yet to be discovered.

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  • Rodofile, Nicholas R. & Radke, Kenneth & Foo, Ernest, 2019. "Extending the cyber-attack landscape for SCADA-based critical infrastructure," International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Elsevier, vol. 25(C), pages 14-35.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ijocip:v:25:y:2019:i:c:p:14-35
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcip.2019.01.002
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