Protect Yourself from Dangerous Security Breaches, Safeguard Operator Reliability, Ensure Standards Conformance The vulnerability of your control systems to cyber breaches has never been more critical than it is today. Cyber intrusions, intentional or unintentional, can have a significant impact on service continuity and safety. - The control of utility processes and systems is becoming increasingly complex. Operator errors - once unthinkable - have become a real danger.
- The critical nature of the utility infrastructure also has made it a prime target for sabotage from organized terrorist attacks, hackers or even unintentional break-ins.
As more information and control systems are automated, the operator's role is increasingly to record, interpret and abstract information concerning the plant as a whole. Much of this information is complex in nature. Based on this information the operator must decide when to act and what action to take. Where an operator once monitored the control systems, they must now plan production, arrange maintenance and control the systems for which he is responsible. Preventing Cyber-Security Attacks Security assessments and penetration tests have identified vulnerabilities in SCADA, distribution control and other utility control systems. There have been cases of both intentional and inadvertent cyber impacts on utility control systems. KEMA is highly experienced in working with control systems, control room ergonomics and knowledge of task and information analysis. We are helping utilities worldwide assess the susceptibility of their control systems to hard-to-detect security breaches. And we are arming them with a better understanding of appropriate levels of security for each system. We can help provide the solutions you need for efficient operation of automated production processes including: - Perform risk and reliability analysis of human error
- Perform security assessments
- Develop checklists for security assessments and regulatory compliance
- Assist in secure computer architecture development
- Develop control system security procedures
Solutions Tailored to Protect Your Critical Infrastructure KEMA understands your operation and the energy industry, not just the technology. With unmatched expertise in the areas of EMS/SCADA/DMS, GIS, utility communications and market design, we can assist you in developing cost-effective, practical security solutions that the meet the needs of your SCADA and DCS/PLC systems. Our solutions include: - Control system security policies and procedures for SCADA/EMS/DMS and DCS applications
- Cyber security support to utilities for factory acceptance testing of SCADA or DCS/PLC implementations
- Cyber security policies and procedures conforming to the NERC cyber security (CIP) standards
- Security guidelines for Internet access to control system displays
- Control system architecture reviews, including security versus performance trade-offs
- Risk assessment methodology, including cyber-specific issues
- Fossil and/or nuclear plant instrumentation and controls for security or performance enhancements
- Security test bed support and vendor coordination
- Cyber security support with industry protocols such as ICCP, UCA and DNP
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