{"id":289,"date":"2025-04-22T23:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T23:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xanehouston\/?p=289"},"modified":"2025-04-22T23:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T23:08:23","slug":"scada-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xanehouston\/2025\/04\/22\/scada-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"SCADA Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"Intro<br \/>Critical infrastructure systems are very important when it comes to keeping a society functioning,<br \/>but due to bad actors, these systems are also very susceptible to cyber attacks. These systems<br \/>include power grids, water facilities, transportation networks, gas pipelines, etc. Supervisory<br \/>Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems help significantly with monitoring and controlling<br \/>these facilities, but it also introduces heavy vulnerabilities.<br \/>Body<br \/>One of the main challenges facing these critical infrastructure systems is the fact that many<br \/>SCADA systems were created to function in isolated environments, meaning that they are not to<br \/>be connected to external networks. Though, as times go on, these systems are interfacing with<br \/>the internet more and more often, which leaves them open to potential cyber threats. (SCADA<br \/>Systems, p. 3).<br \/>Vulnerabilities to these systems generally are created by a lack of security protocols, outdated<br \/>operating systems, and insufficient isolation. For example, if a SCADA system is on the same<br \/>network as a company\u2019s databases, a breach of security in either system could lead to both being<br \/>compromised.<br \/>According to the InfoSec Institute (2020), one of the biggest threats to these SCADA systems is<br \/>the fact that they were not created with security in mind. This may allow attackers to listen in on<br \/>network traffic that they otherwise would not be able to see. It may also leave them open to<br \/>attacks like SQL Injection. (InfoSec Institute, 2020)<br \/>With these risks in mind, SCADA systems are also a big part of the solution to these problems.<br \/>They collect and display a lot of data about system performance which allows operators to detect<br \/>anomalies and act on them accordingly. On top of this, SCADA is developing \u201cspecialized<br \/>industrial VPN and firewall solutions\u201d to improve the security of their systems. (SCADA Systems,<br \/>p. 6).<br \/>Conclusion<br \/>SCADA systems play an important role in monitoring and controlling critical infrastructure. Their<br \/>increased exposure to the internet leaves them open to cybersecurity risks now more than ever.<br \/>With SCADA developing specialized security tools, it helps to decrease the risk to critical<br \/>infrastructure.<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IntroCritical infrastructure systems are very important when it comes to keeping a society functioning,but due to bad actors, these systems are also very susceptible to cyber attacks. These systemsinclude power grids, water facilities, transportation networks, gas pipelines, etc. SupervisoryControl and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems help significantly with monitoring and controllingthese facilities, but it also introduces&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xanehouston\/2025\/04\/22\/scada-systems\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xanehouston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xanehouston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xanehouston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xanehouston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xanehouston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xanehouston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xanehouston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xanehouston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xanehouston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xanehouston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}