Roadmap to Secure Control Systems in the Chemical Sector
Abstract
Leaders from the Nation's critical infrastructure sectors and government agencies recognize the need to plan, coordinate, and focus ongoing efforts to improve control system security. Industry stakeholders agree that a concise plan, with specific goals and milestones for implementing security across individual sectors, is required to prioritize critical needs and gaps to assist critical infrastructure asset owners in reducing the risk of future cyber attacks on control systems. In recent years, roadmaps have been developed to guide the efforts of individual sectors in securing their industrial control systems (ICS). Roadmaps provide an opportunity for industry experts within a sector to offer their perspective concerning the state of control system cybersecurity and appropriate strategies for securing their sector. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is leveraging this industry perspective to help the sector stakeholder community develop programs and risk mitigation measures that align with the sector's plan. In addition to the asset owners and operators, other sector stakeholders include control system vendors, system integrators, and academia, which can use these roadmaps to map supporting activities with industry. Because the roadmap goals are voluntary, implementation of the ideas and concepts presented in this document are addressed based on the organization's overall cybersecurity policies and procedures. Still, roadmaps are recognized as quality documents that provide excellent descriptions of control systems risk challenges and general methods for improving the security of control systems over the ensuing decade. The specific challenges, goals, and priorities of the Chemical Sector are detailed in Section 3 of this roadmap.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA524367