Visible to the public Security-Gateway for SCADA-Systems in Critical Infrastructures

TitleSecurity-Gateway for SCADA-Systems in Critical Infrastructures
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsFrauenschläger, Tobias, Mottok, Jürgen
Conference Name2022 International Conference on Applied Electronics (AE)
Keywordscertification, compositionality, critical infrastructure, Current measurement, Dependability, performance evaluation, power system stability, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, SCADA systems, SCADA Systems Security, security, Stability criteria, supervisory control and data acquisition
AbstractSupervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are used to control and monitor components within the energy grid, playing a significant role in the stability of the system. As a part of critical infrastructures, components in these systems have to fulfill a variety of different requirements regarding their dependability and must also undergo strict audit procedures in order to comply with all relevant standards. This results in a slow adoption of new functionalities. Due to the emerged threat of cyberattacks against critical infrastructures, extensive security measures are needed within these systems to protect them from adversaries and ensure a stable operation. In this work, a solution is proposed to integrate extensive security measures into current systems. By deploying additional security-gateways into the communication path between two nodes, security features can be integrated transparently for the existing components. The developed security-gateway is compliant to all regulatory requirements and features an internal architecture based on the separation-of-concerns principle to increase its security and longevity. The viability of the proposed solution has been verified in different scenarios, consisting of realistic field tests, security penetration tests and various performance evaluations.
NotesISSN: 1805-9597
DOI10.1109/AE54730.2022.9920070
Citation Keyfrauenschlager_security-gateway_2022