Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems enable industrial organizations to control and monitor real-time data and industrial processes. Migrating SCADA systems to cloud environments can enhance the performance of traditional systems...
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems play a key role in various industrial processes. Due to their key role in critical infrastructures, in recent years, they have become the target of cyber attackers. In this research, we propose...
Smart grids are complex cyber-physical systems that incorporate smart devices’ communication capabilities into the grid to enable remote management and the control of power systems. However, this integration reveals numerous SCADA system flaws, which...
The increased connectivity and automation capabilities of Industry 4.0 cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) create significant cyber-security vulnerabilities in supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) environments if robust protections a...
Securing critical infrastructures and manufacturing plants in the Industrial-Internet-Of-Things and Industry 4.0 is a challenge today due to the increased number of attacks against automation and SCADA systems. These systems were built without any se...
The advanced connection requirements of industrial automation and control systems have sparked a new revolution in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) network has evolved into an open and...
The vigorous development of the Industrial Internet of Things brings the advanced connection function of the new generation of industrial automation and control systems. The Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) network is converted into a...
The reliable operation of modern infrastructures depends on computerized systems and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, which are also based on the data obtained from sensor networks. The inherent limitations of the sensor devi...
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems play a critical role in industrial processes by providing real-time monitoring and control of equipment across large-scale, distributed operations. In the context of cyber security, Intrusion D...
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is a key component in smart grid electric systems. It improves the grid’s efficiency and reliability by transmitting information between field devices, intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) and r...
Modern technology enhancements have been used worldwide to fulfill the requirements of the industrial sector, especially in supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems as a part of industrial control systems (ICS). SCADA systems have gai...
Due to the augmented engrossment of technology in security, everything moves towards a cohesive system. Smart cyber-lock technology is one of the eminent concepts with the potential to solve emerging safety and security issues. This work aims to esta...
Detecting intrusions from the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems is one of the most essential and challenging processes in recent times. Most of the conventional works aim to develop an efficient intrusion detection system (IDS)...
Smart grids increasingly depend on tightly coupled Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) infrastructures to enable real-time monitoring, control, and data-driven energy management. Yet, the growin...
Over the last few years, cyber-physical systems (CPSs) have come to play a central role in critical infrastructures, manufacturing, transport, and robotics. As a consequence, their lack of security increasingly affects the physical world, possibly ca...
Across the world’s electrical substations, water-treatment plants, and manufacturing lines, a single engineer with valid credentials and a laptop can today push new control logic to a programmable logic controller (PLC) and change the physical...
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) attacks have increased due to the digital transformation of many industrial control systems (ICS). Operational technology (OT) operators should use the defense-in-depth concept to secure their operatio...
An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a tool used primarily for security monitoring, which is one of the security strategies for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Distributed Network Protocol version 3 (DNP3) is the predomina...
A key purpose of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system is to enable either an on-site or remote supervisory control and monitoring of physical processes of various natures. In order for a SCADA system to operate safely and securel...
Integrating IoT devices in SCADA systems has provided efficient and improved data collection and transmission technologies. This enhancement comes with significant security challenges, exposing traditionally isolated systems to the public internet. E...
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems monitor and supervise our daily infrastructure systems and industrial processes. Hence, the security of the information systems of critical infrastructures cannot be overstated. The effectivene...
Data security of present-day power systems, such as the electricity market, has spurred global interest in both industry and academia. The electricity market can either be regulated (state-controlled entrance, policies, and pricing) or deregulated (o...
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are vulnerable to cyberattacks; hence, cybersecurity is a major concern. Hybrid methodologies using advanced machine learning (ML) may increase intrusion detection and system security. The intr...
In Industry 4.0, manufacturing and critical systems require high levels of flexibility and resilience for dynamic outcomes. Industrial Control Systems (ICS), specifically Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, are commonly used for...
In recent years, Internet of Things (IoT) systems are used in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems due to their widespread use in industrial sectors, providing convenience to users in SCADA systems, like other domains. In addition to the dive...
Ensuring resilient controllability and observability in SCADA-based smart grids under coordinated cyberattacks remains a critical and unresolved challenge in modern cyber-physical power systems. This paper investigates the impact of coordinated cyber...
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are widely deployed in nation’s critical national infrastructures such as utilities, transport, banking and health-care. Whilst Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are commonly deployed to monitor...
The increased number of cyber threats against the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and automation systems in the Industrial-Internet-of-Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 era has raised concerns in respect to the importance of securing cr...
The convergence of operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) in industrial environments, such as water treatment plants, has significantly increased the attack surface of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Tra...
Industrial Control Systems (ICS), which include Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), play a crucial role in managing and regulating industrial processes...
This paper discusses the new auspicious trends of internet of things (IoT) and its advanced developments in various sectors of today’s IT arena, including for industrial sectors. Each object acts as a communication node (or entity) that is able to co...
This article presents the design and implementation of a Virtual Cyber-Physical Testbed (VCPT) for transportation systems, featuring an automated level-crossing process. The proposed design improves network fidelity while keeping the platform lightwe...
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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are integrated systems that combine software and physical components. CPS has experienced rapid growth over the past decade in fields as disparate as telemedicine, smart manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, the Internet of...
Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS) are broadly utilized in critical infrastructures for monitoring and controlling the industrial processes remotely. The real-time transmissions in such systems provoke security breaches. Many security b...
Digital substations, also referred to as modern power grid substations, utilize the IEC 61850 station and process bus in conjunction with IP-based communication. This includes communication with switch yard equipment within the substation as well as...
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and SCADA-connected networks are increasingly vulnerable to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which can disrupt time-sensitive industrial processes and compromise operational continuity. Effective miti...
This study proposes a zero-shot cross-domain intrusion detection framework for industrial control systems (ICS) using a canonical feature representation and domain-adversarial learning. While prior approaches relied on labeled target data, the propos...
Today, security is a prominent issue when any type of communication is being undertaken. Like traditional networks, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems suffer from a number of vulnerabilities. Numerous end-to-end security mechani...
The subject of cyber-security and therefore cyber-attacks on smart grid (SG) has become subject of many publications in the last years, emphasizing its importance in research, as well as in practice. One especially vulnerable part of SG are smart met...
This paper presents the development of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system testbed used for cybersecurity research. The testbed consists of a water storage tank’s control system, which is a stage in the process of water treatmen...
The industrial control systems are facing an increasing number of sophisticated cyber attacks that can have very dangerous consequences on humans and their environments. In order to deal with these issues, novel technologies and approaches should be...
The increasing proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs) on the smart grid has made distributed solar and wind two key contributors to the expanding attack surface of the network; however, there is a lack of proper understanding and enforc...
Modern cybersecurity challenges span multiple layers, from human behavior and identity management to network communication and device security. This paper proposes a unified multi-layered security framework that integrates human-centric, identity-cen...
Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) are essential for enabling Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies in utility environments. Utilities can leverage these networks to monitor critical remote assets, especially where mobile technologies are unsuitab...
Intrusion detection in industrial cyber-physical systems is constrained by small labelled-attack corpora and by the subtler signal of physical-process attacks compared with classical IT-network intrusions, motivating renewed interest in foundation-mo...
SCADA systems monitor critical industrial, energy and other physical infrastructures in order to detect malfunctions, issue alerts and, in many cases, propose or even take remedial actions. However, due to their attachment to the Internet, SCADA syst...
The connectivity advances in industrial control systems have also increased the possibility of cyberattacks in industry. Thus, security becomes crucial in critical infrastructures, whose services are considered essential in fields such as manufacturi...
This paper presents the modeling of the networks supporting today’s telemetry. The incorporation of networking features has significantly enhanced the capability and performance of modern telemetry systems. The development of Integrated Network-Enhan...
The growth of renewable energy generation in the power grid brings attention to high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission as a valuable solution for stabilizing the system. Robust hybrid power system state estimation could enhance the resilienc...
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