Robust Control System Networks

How to Achieve Reliable Control After Stuxnet

By: Ralph Langner

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Hardcover | 15 September 2011 | Edition Number 1

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From the researcher who was one of the first to identify and analyze the infamous industrial control system malware "Stuxnet," comes a book that takes a new, radical approach to making Industrial control systems safe from such cyber attacks: design the controls systems themselves to be "robust." Other security experts advocate risk management, implementing more firewalls and carefully managing passwords and access. Not so this book: those measures, while necessary, can still be circumvented.

Instead, this book shows in clear, concise detail how a system that has been set up with an eye toward quality design in the first place is much more likely to remain secure and less vulnerable to hacking, sabotage or malicious control. It blends several well-established concepts and methods from control theory, systems theory, cybernetics and quality engineering to create the ideal protected system. The book's maxim is taken from the famous quality engineer William Edwards Deming, "If I had to reduce my message to management to just a few words, I'd say it all has to do with reducing variation." Highlights include: -

An overview of the problem of "cyber fragility" in industrial control systems
How to make an industrial control system "robust," including principal design objectives and overall strategic planning
Why using the methods of quality engineering like the Taguchi method, SOP and UML will help to design more "armored" industrial control systems

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Preface	p. ix
The Insurance Model of Risk: Risk as Statistical Probability and Projected Amount of Loss	p. 1
The Logical Model of Risk: Risk as Cause and Consequence	p. 3
The Financial Model of Risk: Risk as Volatility	p. 5
From Risk to Fragility and from Security to Robustness	p. 7
The Problem of Cyber Fragility in Industrial Automation and Control	p. 9
Cyber Fragility Defined	p. 10
The Evolution of Complexity in Industrial Automation and Control	p. 15
Entropy and IACS Networks	p. 16
Cyber Contingency	p. 20
Fragile Control	p. 28
Control Clouds	p. 31
Cyber Robustness	p. 39
Cyber Robustness Defined	p. 39
Robustification Theory: Principles	p. 43
Robustification Practice: Strategies	p. 48
How to Approach Robustification Projects	p. 50
Recommended Robustification Procedure	p. 53
Building a System Mode!	p. 59
System Model Aspects and Criteria	p. 60
Building a Structural System Model	p. 61
Hardware Inventor
Software Inventory	p. 74
Network Configuration	p. 75
People, Policy, Procedures	p. 76
Monitoring and Auditing	p. 80
Requirements and System Specification	p. 83
The Role of Requirements for Robustification	p. 84
Specification Items	p. 85
The Specification Tree	p. 86
Specifying Cyber Operating Conditions	p. 87
Imposing Structure	p. 89
Removing Unnecessary Applications, Services, and Functions (System Hardening)	p. 91
Reducing or Removing General-Purpose Software Services and interfaces	p. 95
Using Application-Specific Least-Functionality Interfaces	p. 98
Reducing Static Open File Exchanges (Shared Folders)	p. 101
Eliminating Hidden Hubs	p. 103
Restricting User Access and User Interaction	p. 105
Reducing Variation in Procedure (Standard Operating Procedures)	p. 108
Reducing Network Exposure	p. 112
Reducing Variation in Equipment Type, Product Version, and Configuration Options	p. 115
Enforcing and Reinforcing Structure	p. 119
Resilient Code and Architecture	p. 120
Code Execution and Configuration Tamper Control/Monitoring	p. 124
Encoding and Verifying Meta Information for End-to-End Validity Checking	p. 128
Context-Based Restrictions on Control Authority (Inherent Safety)	p. 131
Safeguards and Process Monitoring	p. 133
Redundancy	p. 136
Derating (Performance Reserves)	p. 140
Modifying Structure	p. 145
The Need for Adaptability in IACS Environments	p. 146
Change Factors	p. 147
Change Management Quality Levels	p. 151
Epilogue	p. 155
Appendix	p. 157
Surprise! Nonobvious, Nonanticipated Cyber Fragility Effects	p. 157
Conservative Engineering Habits Resulting in Cyber Fragility	p. 163
Cyber Robustness Versus IT Security	p. 171
References	p. 187
List of Acronyms	p. 189
Index	p. 195
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