Emulating Industrial Control System Field Devices Using Gumstix Technology

Abstract

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) have an inherent lack of security and situational awareness capabilities at the field device level. Yet these systems comprise a significant portion of the nation's critical infrastructure. Currently, there is little insight into the characterization of attacks on ICS. Stuxnet provided an initial look at the type of tactics that can be employed to create physical damage via cyber means. The question still remains, however, as to the extent of malware and attacks that are targeting the critical infrastructure, along with the various methods employed to target systems associated with the ICS environment. This research presents a device using Gumstix technology that emulates an ICS field device. The emulation device is low-cost, adaptable to myriad ICS environments and provides logging capabilities at the field device level. The device was evaluated to ensure conformity to RFC standards and that the operating characteristics are consistent with actual field devices.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA563104

Entities

People

  • Dustin J. Berman

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Application Protocols
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Cybersecurity
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Industrial Control Systems
  • Information Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Intrusion Detectors
  • Load Monitoring
  • Operating Systems
  • Scada

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Cybersecurity.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber