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Cyber-Physical Attack Defenses: Preventing Damage to Buildings and Utilities

Cyber-Physical Attack Defenses: Preventing Damage to Buildings and Utilities

Ayala, Luis

Paperback

General Computers

ISBN10: 1546648305
ISBN13: 9781546648307
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 11 2017
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What is a cyber-physical attack?

A cyber-physical attack is one in which a wholly digital attack against Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) caused physical destruction of equipment. A cyber-physical attack is different from an enterprise network attack designed to steal money, exfiltrate information, or hold a computer hostage for ransom. Those attacks are fairly simple and can be carried out by a cyber-criminal, or even a garden variety cracker.

Designing an attack scenario to exploit a particular physical process requires a solid engineering background and in-depth destructive knowledge of the target SCADA system (Cyber-Physical Attack Engineering), but a cracker doesn't need an engineering background to figure out how to turn equipment off.

Basically, it's the weaponization of the Internet.

A typical Industrial Controls System contains multiple control loops and sometimes the control loops are nested and/or cascading, so the set point for one loop is based on the process variable output from another loop. Supervisory control loops and lower-level loops operate continuously over the duration of a process with cycle times of milliseconds. Interrupting one process can have a ripple effect through the factory.

So, what is the big deal?

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