Quantifying availability in SCADA environments using the cyber security metric MFC

Anis Ben Aissa; Latifa Ben Arfa Rabai; Robert K. Abercrombie; Frederick T. Sheldon; Ali Mili

doi:10.1145/2602087.2602103

Quantifying availability in SCADA environments using the cyber security metric MFC

Anis Ben Aissa, Latifa Ben Arfa Rabai, Robert K. Abercrombie, Frederick T. Sheldon, Ali Mili

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Abstract

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are distributed networks dispersed over large geographic areas that aim to monitor and control industrial processes from remote areas and/or a centralized location. They are used in the management of critical infrastructures such as electric power generation, transmission and distribution, water and sewage, manufacturing/industrial manufacturing as well as oil and gas production. The availability of SCADA systems is tantamount to assuring safety, security and profitability. SCADA systems are the backbone of the national cyber-physical critical infrastructure. Herein, we explore the definition and quantification of an econometric measure of availability, as it applies to SCADA systems; our metric is a specialization of the generic measure of mean failure cost. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2014 9th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research Conference, CISRC 2014
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	81-84
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781450328128
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2602087.2602103
State	Published - 2014
Event	9th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research Conference, CISRC 2014 - Oak Ridge, TN, United States Duration: Apr 8 2014 → Apr 10 2014

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Other	9th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research Conference, CISRC 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Oak Ridge, TN
Period	4/8/14 → 4/10/14

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

Keywords

Availability
Dependability
Security measures
Security requirements
Threats

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Aissa, A. B., Rabai, L. B. A., Abercrombie, R. K., Sheldon, F. T., & Mili, A. (2014). Quantifying availability in SCADA environments using the cyber security metric MFC. In Proceedings of 2014 9th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research Conference, CISRC 2014 (pp. 81-84). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2602087.2602103

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Aissa, AB, Rabai, LBA, Abercrombie, RK, Sheldon, FT & Mili, A 2014, Quantifying availability in SCADA environments using the cyber security metric MFC. in Proceedings of 2014 9th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research Conference, CISRC 2014. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 81-84, 9th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research Conference, CISRC 2014, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, 4/8/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2602087.2602103

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Aissa AB, Rabai LBA, Abercrombie RK, Sheldon FT, Mili A. Quantifying availability in SCADA environments using the cyber security metric MFC. In Proceedings of 2014 9th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research Conference, CISRC 2014. Association for Computing Machinery. 2014. p. 81-84. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). doi: 10.1145/2602087.2602103

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