Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems

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ICs VuLnerABILItIes

or intercept and change operator commands and apply inap-

propriate control sequences that introduce defects and pos-

sibly catastrophic reactions within the production process.

MoC in an ICS infrastructure creates the risk of malicious

third parties assuming control of the production infrastruc-

ture and deliberately invoking critical errors to ruin produc-

tion or destroy infrastructure—as was demonstrated by the

U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in the Aurora experi-

ments, where a power generator was issued an ICS command

set resulting in its self-destruction.

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e functional vulnerabilities described above are useful in ana-

lyzing previously known failures or unknown ICS vulnerabilities.

For example, by reviewing ...