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Hacking the Industrial Network

Publisher: Phoenix Contact

Format: PDF
Date: 2009-09-25

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Overview:
This paper outlines the risk factors and the damaging outcomes of possible hacking attacks on industrial SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) and DCS (Distributed Control Systems) networks, and details various ways of making industrial production lines and process management systems secure and protecting them from malicious attacks from Internet as well as from within the production network. A brief history of the evolution of various industrial network technologies is included, describing how Ethernet transformed the modern industrial networks by allowing for integration of corporate IT networks with legacy process control and production systems. The severe economical consequences of production interruption in the industrial sector are highlighted, including a list of applications and systems that are at risk, and illustrating various network configurations that can be implemented to secure an industrial network from hacking attacks. The paper also covers various network security products offered by Innominate Security Technologies AG.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.	The Problem	1
2.	The History	1
3.	Ethernet	2
4.	Common Objections and Rationalizations	5
5.	Industry Recommendations	6
6.	The Solution	7
8.	About the Author	12
9.	Figures
9.1.	A Short Chronological List of Widely Reported Incidents of Hacking and Disruption	4
9.2.	Applications and Systems at Risk	6
9.3.	Various Applications and Formats Available: Rackmount, DIN Mount and PCI Cards	8
9.4.	Various Network Configurations	9
9.5.	A Remote Services Unit for DIN Rail Mounting with Integrated Analog Modem or ISDN
Terminal Adapter	10
9.6.	An Integrated Network Solution	11