SCADA Security - Why Is It So Hard?

By Amol Sarwate on 14 Dec 2011 @ Blackhat
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Focus Areas: Industrial Control Systems Security

Abstract

This talk will present technical security challenges faced by organizations that have SCADA or control systems installations. The presentation will take a packet level dive into SCADA protocols and provide examples of attacks . It will also showcase examples of security controls for attack mitigation and introduce a new open-source tool to help identify and inventory SCADA systems.