Handbook of Scada/Control Systems Security

This comprehensive handbook presents a fundamental outline of security concepts, methodologies and relevant information pertaining to SCADA and other industrial control systems used in utility and industrial facilities worldwide. It provides concepts and essential information for securing control systems as part of a critical infrastructure protection program and has global applications for critical governmental and economic systems that have evolved into security nightmares. This edition includes 11 new chapters and 9 revised chapters with many new figures, photos and illustrations.

Robert Radvanovsky, CIPS, is an active security professional in the United States with knowledge in security, risk management, business continuity, disaster recovery planning, and remediation. He obtained his master’s degree in computer science from DePaul University in Chicago, and he has significantly contributed toward establishing several certification programs, specifically on the topics of critical infrastructure protection and critical infrastructure assurance. He has special interest and knowledge in matters of critical infrastructure and has published a number of articles and white papers regarding this topic, and has authored or coauthored several books in the field. Though he has been significantly involved in establishing security training and awareness programs through his company, Infracritical, he also works with several professional accreditation and educational institutions on the topics of homeland security, critical infrastructure protection and assurance, and cybersecurity.

Jacob Brodsky began his career in computing and telecommunications at the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) as an instrumentation and telecommunications technician while attending evening classes at the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, from which he received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He has worked on every aspect of SCADA and control systems for the WSSC, from the assembly language firmware of the remote terminal unit to the communications protocols and the telecommunications networks, including frequency-division multiplexing analog and digital microwave radios, the data networks, systems programming, protocol drivers, human–machine interface design, and programmable logic controller programming. He is a registered professional engineer of control systems in the state of Maryland, and has coauthored chapters on control systems for several books.