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Improving security in SCADA systems through firewall policy analysis

RYŠAVÝ Ondřej, RÁB Jaroslav and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Improving security in SCADA systems through firewall policy analysis. In: Proceedings of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems. Krakow: IEEE Computer Society, 2013, pp. 1435-1440. ISBN 978-1-4673-4471-5.
Czech title
Zvýšení bezpečnosti SCADA systémů pomocí analýzy filtrovacích pravidel firewalů
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Ryšavý Ondřej, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS FIT BUT)
Ráb Jaroslav, Ing. (DIFS FIT BUT)
Švéda Miroslav, prof. Ing., CSc. (DIFS FIT BUT)
Keywords

SCADA, network firewalls, network security, network policy, SAT/SMT, firewall rule based analysis

Abstract

Many of modern SCADA networks are connected to both the company's enterprise network and the Internet. Because these industrial systems often control critical processes the cyber- security requirements become a priority for their design.

This paper deals with network communication security in SCADA environment implemented by firewall devices. We proposed a method for verification of firewall configurations against security policy to detect and reveal potential holes in implemented rule sets. We present a straightforward verification method based on representation of a firewall configuration as a set of logical formulas suitable for automated analysis using SAT tools. We demonstrate how such configuration can be analyzed for security policy violation that can be inferred from security policy specification of an industrial automation system. 

Published
2013
Pages
1435-1440
Proceedings
Proceedings of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems
Conference
FedCSIS 2013 International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems, Krakow, PL
ISBN
978-1-4673-4471-5
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Place
Krakow, PL
BibTeX 
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB10382,
   author = "Ond\v{r}ej Ry\v{s}av\'{y} and Jaroslav R\'{a}b and Miroslav \v{S}v\'{e}da",
   title = "Improving security in SCADA systems through firewall policy analysis",
   pages = "1435--1440",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems",
   year = 2013,
   location = "Krakow, PL",
   publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
   ISBN = "978-1-4673-4471-5",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/10382"
}
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