Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems

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threAts to ICs

of impacts associated with the probing, scanning, and attacking that

inadvertently impacts fragile ICS devices.

Table2.3 is a simple overview of cyber the prime types of cyber

threat agents and the assets they typically target. Many threat

agents are, in eect, a composite of several of the categories dened

Table2.3 ICS Threat Agents

THREAT AGENT PROFILE TARGETED ASSETS

Professional

bot herders

Like malware wholesalers. They invest in

the development and management of

bot herds, and then rent them out to

any of the other threat agents.

Seek to gain control of devices in

order to repurpose them on

demand and rent or sell ...