Industrial Control Systems Security

A special issue of Safety (ISSN 2313-576X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2019) | Viewed by 354

Special Issue Editor

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Interests: computer security; industrial control systems security; wireless sensor network security; VANET security; information security; intrusion detection; Internet of Things security; cyber physical systems security

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and industrial control systems monitor and control a wide range of industrial and infrastructure processes such as water treatment, power generation and transmission, oil and gas refining, and general manufacturing. Such systems are usually built using a variety of commodity computer and networking components and are becoming increasingly interconnected to corporate and other Internet-visible networks. As a result, they face significant threats from cyber attacks.

This Special Issue focuses on issues related to industrial control systems security. Our goal is to disseminate the latest research and knowledge in this important area. The following areas, which are of particular interest, including (but not limited to) the following subject categories, are solicited:

  • Intrusion detection and prevention
  • Malware
  • Vulnerability analysis and risk management
  • Digital forensics
  • Virtualization
  • Application security
  • Performance evaluation of security methods and tools in control systems
  • Cybersecurity Education

Dr. Ernest Foo
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • intrusion detection and prevention
  • malware 
  • vulnerability analysis and risk management 
  • digital forensics 
  • virtualization 
  • application security 
  • performance evaluation of security methods and tools in control systems
  • cybersecurity education

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