Scada And National Critical Infrastructures: Is Security An Optional?

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Presented at TROOPERS 2008 by

Raoul Chiesa

SCADA acronym stands for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition, and its related to industrial automation inside critical infrastructures. This talk will introduce the audience to SCADA environments and its totally different security approaches, outlining the main key differences with typical IT Security best practices. We will analyze a real world case study related to industry. We will describe the most common security mistakes and some of the direct consequences of such mistakes to a production environment. In addition, attendees will be shown a video of real SCADA machines reacting to these attacks in the most interesting ways!