Monitoring Industrial Control Systems to Improve Operations and Security

ICS refers to the set of devices that govern the process to guarantee its safe and successful execution and include Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and other control systems such as Remote Terminal Units (RTU) and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). A malfunction in any of these systems or the network in which they operate might cause the entire industrial process to fail, with serious consequences. In this report, we give an overview of the existing technologies that can be employed to mitigate the most prominent cyber threats to ICS networks.