Misusing Sensory Channel to Attack Industrial Control Systems

Farhad Rasapour, Hoda Mehrpouyan

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Abstract

Industrial control systems (ICS) are used to control and manage critical infrastructures and protecting these complex system and their interfaces, which can be exploited by internal and external attackers, are a vital security task. Sensors, as an interface device, are used by ICS to collect information about the physical environment and should be guarded against cyber attacks. This paper investigates how sensors can be used as a communication channel by hackers to send a malicious command and control into the ICS. Further, we examine how abusing sensory channel would lead to a data pattern, which can be detected by a proper signature-based intrusion detection system (IDS).

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationCODASPY '18: Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy
Pages158-160
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450356329
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2018
Event8th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, CODASPY 2018 - Tempe, United States
Duration: 19 Mar 201821 Mar 2018

Publication series

Name2018-January

Conference

Conference8th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, CODASPY 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityTempe
Period19/03/1821/03/18

Keywords

  • cyber-security
  • industrial control system
  • sensory channel misuse

EGS Disciplines

  • Computer Sciences

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