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VIKING delivers three planned documents |
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Written by Gunnar Bjoerkman
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 18:49 |
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The VIKING project has recently delivered three document according to plan. These three documents are all important base documents for the coming modeling and testing work for the second half of the VIKING project. This news article presents the three documents and gives a short description of each document.
- Threats and Vulnerabilities, Initial Report (D2.1)
Deliverable 2.1 of the VIKING project is the first delivery of the work performed on identifying and modeling threats and vulnerabilities of industrial control- and SCADA systems. The objective of this work as a whole is to develop models for predicting and estimating the cyber security level of industrial control- and SCADA systems. The purpose of such an estimate is to support industrial decision makers of industrial control- and SCADA systems design and management to make cost-efficient design solutions. The output of this cyber security estimate serves as input to for estimating the consequences of malicious events in the cyber world in terms of events in the power system.
- SCADA system architectures (D2.3)
The purpose of the SCADA architecture patterns is to clarify how SCADA systems are commonly designed by employing a stringent model framework. Internal in the project the SCADA patterns will be used to develop SCADA system design models that reflect some typical systems deployed in industry. These models will be used in other work packages and deliverables in the VIKING project. In particular, the patterns is an important input to deliverable 3.1 (Architecture based vulnerability assessment).
The architectures presented in this report have been identified through a literature study and number of interviews with a several world leading SCADA system vendors.
- Test Requirements Specification
The results of the requirements collection is summarized in this deliverable. The main aim has been to achieve an overview of the detail level in implementation, emulation and simulation respectively that is required for the testbed to provide proper support for the researches. The requirements were verified to ensure that the testbed to be created is realistic with respect to the currently used control systems and that it can be configured so that it matches the real system architectures.
The VIKING testbed environment shall support the following activities:
- Studying various threats and attack situations.
- Studying mitigation and protection procedures against threats.
- Verification of other off-line models developed inside VIKING project (or even outside of it).
- Presenting demonstrations.
These three documents are available for public use. If you have interest to receive one or all of them please use the "Contact US" channel. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 June 2010 19:01 |
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New paper regarding Cyber Attacks in Power Systems |
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Written by Gitte Bergknut
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Tuesday, 20 April 2010 14:06 |
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Under Results You will now find a short paper regarding Cyber Attacks on Power System that you can download. If you would like to know more please use Contact Us to get in contact with the researchers. The report will also be presented at Maryland, we will announce time and place under events as soon as we have all the details. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 April 2010 14:07 |
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VIKING publishes new WEB page |
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Written by Gunnar Björkman
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 10:31 |
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The VIKING project is publishing a new WEB page. The intention with the new WEB page is to achieve a more active information exchange with interested parties in the community of infrastructure - and IT security experts either directly connected to the VIKING projects as reviewers and advisors or more loosely associated. The WEB page will also act as an internal communication tools within the project and as an storage area for internal documents.
We added more and better texts to describe the VIKING project from different views, e.g. a description of the internal Work Structure describing the different Work Packages and their relations. We have added descriptions of of our Consortium and of the Quality Evaluation Group, our review forum. The possibility for You to download papers and presentations regarding SCADA Security produced within the VIKING project is included. There is now a Blog where You will be able to follow the open part of the internal discussions within the project and there is a Search Engine to ease information finding.
If You want to contact us, please use the contact formular where You will be able to write messages to us and we will do our outmost to answer you as completely and quickly as possible.
We hope that the new VIKING WEB page will always be informative for You with the latest information from the VIKING project and we hope for many visitors. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 31 March 2010 09:19 |
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VIKING presentation on CPS week |
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Written by Gunnar Bjoerkman
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Thursday, 15 April 2010 09:43 |
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This week, on Monday April 12, the VIKING project was presented on the CPS workshop for Secure Control Systems in Stockholm. The presentation was done in connection to the CPS article "The VIKING Project - Towards more Secure SCADA Systems". This article can be found under "Publications" on this WEB page. The VIKING project was also represented in the panel discussion at the end of the workshop together with a number of distinguished professors.
It was very interesting to hear that a big number of presentations and articles treated topics very close or identical to VIKING. The scientific world obviously has a big interest in the area of critical infrastructure protection and for the corresponding control systems that supervise and control these infrastructures. Many presentations were in the area of advanced applications, especially around the State Estimator, and the possibilities to fool such applications with maliciously manipulated input data.
More information about the CPS event and the workshop on Secure Control Systems can be found under the following address where all presentations will be published.
http://www.cpsweek2010.se/
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Last Updated on Thursday, 15 April 2010 11:27 |
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SCADA System Architectures |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54 |
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Highlights of current work from work package “SCADA system architectures” that will be documented in a report with the due date April 31. This will help us to direct the future research to the most critical parts. Our aim is to identify the common architectures, and we focus primarily on data going in or out of the control center. This will be useful when we shall quantify different risks and it will help us to focus our efforts to the risks that appears to be most important.
For the report we plan to have identified a high-level diagram over the services and data flows associated with SCADA systems and services located in/near control centers. With this as a basis we have worked to identify the different ways these services can be placed in different zones. We call these different solutions for architecture patterns.
Until now we have worked with ABB to develop a representation of the state-of-practice. During March and April we will discuss these with more vendors (e.g. Siemens, GE) and change and confirm our models. We will also ask for quantitative data on how common different architectures and data flows are. In parallel with this ABB R&D (Baden Daettwil) will work on substation automation architectures. The aim that these “patterns” shall cover the majority of systems in the installed base out there...
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