Intrusion Detection and Cyber Security Monitoring of SCADA and DCS Networks

Governments and industry organizations, including ISA, have recognized that Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and other process control networks, referred to as SCADA networks in this paper, are potential targets of attack from hackers, disgruntled insiders, cyber terrorists, and others who want to disrupt the critical infrastructure. This paper describes how current intrusion detection and cyber security monitoring products and services used in IT enterprise networks can provide early identification of attacks from the most common threat agents.