Techno Security's Guide to Securing SCADA
A Comprehensive Handbook On Protecting The Critical Infrastructure

In-depth coverage of SCADA systems security and critical infrastructure protection from the leading experts in the field

Greg Miles (Author), Jack Wiles (Author), Ted Claypoole (Author), Phil Drake (Author), Paul A. Henry (Author), Lester J. Johnson (Author), Sean Lowther (Author), Marc Weber Tobias (Author), James H. Windle (Author)

9781597492829, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 23 August 2008

352 pages
23.5 x 19 x 2.3 cm, 0.71 kg

Around the world, SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems and other real-time process control networks run mission-critical infrastructure--everything from the power grid to water treatment, chemical manufacturing to transportation. These networks are at increasing risk due to the move from proprietary systems to more standard platforms and protocols and the interconnection to other networks. Because there has been limited attention paid to security, these systems are seen as largely unsecured and very vulnerable to attack.

This book addresses currently undocumented security issues affecting SCADA systems and overall critical infrastructure protection. The respective co-authors are among the leading experts in the world capable of addressing these related-but-independent concerns of SCADA security. Headline-making threats and countermeasures like malware, sidejacking, biometric applications, emergency communications, security awareness llanning, personnel & workplace preparedness and bomb threat planning will be addressed in detail in this one of a kind book-of-books dealing with the threats to critical infrastructure protection. They collectivly have over a century of expertise in their respective fields of infrastructure protection. Included among the contributing authors are Paul Henry, VP of Technology Evangelism, Secure Computing, Chet Hosmer, CEO and Chief Scientist at Wetstone Technologies, Phil Drake, Telecommunications Director, The Charlotte Observer, Patrice Bourgeois, Tenable Network Security, Sean Lowther, President, Stealth Awareness and Jim Windle, Bomb Squad Commander, CMPD.

Foreword
Chapter 1: Physical Security: SCADA and the Critical Infrastructure's Biggest Vulnerability
Chapter 2: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
Chapter 3: SCADA Security Assessment Methodology
Chapter 4: Developing an Effective Security Awareness Program
Chapter 5: Working with Law Enforcement on SCADA Incidents
Chapter 6:Locked but Not Secure: An Overview of Conventional and High Security Locks
Chapter 7: Bomb Threat Planning: Things Have Changed
Chapter 8: Biometric Authentication for SCADA Security
Appendix: Personal, Workforce, and Family Preparedness
Index

Subject Areas: Computer security [UR], Management of specific areas [KJMV]