SCADA

Summary Written By: Bradley Penney Tour: Cass County Electric Cooperative Control Center Date: 8/11/15 Time: 4:30 Location: Fargo, ND Tour Guide: Brad Schmidt Cass County Electric Cooperative is a member owned, non-profit electric distribution system headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota. The cooperative has 44,000 members and serves a nearly 5,000 square mile area in ten counties in southeastern North Dakota, Figure 1. The distribution cooperative owns nearly 4,700 miles

DTL Power Corporation is an electricity generating and distributing company headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Currently, they have 5.4 million electricity customers and 485,000 natural gas customers. Also, DTL Power has full or majority ownership of 14 nuclear reactors in 12 nuclear power plants. Additionally, it has 2 hydropower plants in the Midwest and 5 wind energy centers along the East Coast. Last year, incidents around the world involving nuclear reactors have led the company to increase

(Weiss, 2010). By way of contrast, the energy industry endures vulnerabilities from other unintentional sources. A prime example is electromagnetic communication interference (EMI). This vulnerability affects radio communications modules tied to SCADA systems. Additional vulnerabilities that prevail in the energy infrastructures is the lack of acknowledgment when it comes to protocols, rules, and regulations. Anotherwords, if information technology standards within the energy industry are too advanced

1) Seismic photos have become more prominent exact with the advancement of more cutting edge speed models, which contain actualities about the speed at which seismic waves visit by means of shake layers. As specified over, these measurements are basic for unwinding the geologic privileged insights concealed somewhere inside the earth. Recorded echoes create a lot of insights, and effective supercomputers are required to the manner and examine the certainties to frame a 3-D photo. Precision is urgent

Perhaps the most difficult issue with cybersecurity is implementing policy controls that are applicable and effective among a variety of individuals, companies and governments. Policy controls are needed to reduce cybercrime, cyber terrorism, threats to SCADA systems and zero day exploits. The most controversial topic that policy controls need to address is Meta data collection and its terms of usage by not only the government but the private sector as well. Additionally, government security regulations

Take Benefits DCS and PLC/SCADA - a comparison in use to acquire control systems as required The use of PLC / SCADA is often regarded as the most sophisticated control systems solutions today. Though there are other control systems such as DCS currently has a feature and has several advantages compared PLC / SCADA. At the past time, DCS was popularly used in the design of the control system, but with the SCADA control method, the use of DCS had dropped drastically. Along with the development of

Chevron used their modeling and analytics to exploit deep water drilling and hydrocarbon extraction in areas with challenging geographies (Artman, 2005). 2. Ozturk and Aubin (2011) mention there are several security vulnerabilities associated with SCADA such as the networking of control systems where breaches in enterprise security can arise if appropriate security controls are not put in place for both networks. Insecure remote connections,

Assessment of the SCADA/Stuxnet Worm on U.S. and Global Infrastructures The rapid proliferation of malware and sophisticated computer viruses capable of electronically interrupting and dismantling nuclear sites, key elements of infrastructure to the Programmable Logic Controller device level while "learning" or accumulating knowledge at the same time is becoming more pervasive. The well-known Stuxnet worm, which experts theorize was originally funded and supported technologically by one or more

SCADA - EMS This report covers the real-time system design and the different components of the SCADA Energy Management System. Specifically, this report will focus on the General Electric XA/21 SCADA system and how it all fits together and how it provides a solution to end-users and administrators. The XA/21 is a very scalable and customizable system and that will be described at great length in this report (General Electric, 2013). System Basics As noted in the introduction, the scalability and

IMPLICATION OF DBSY ON SCADA NETWORKS RESEARCH ADVISORS: DR. PAVOL ZAVARSKY SHIREESHA KATAM {skatam@student.concordia.ab.ca}- ID: 130526 DECEMBER 03, 2014 1 Research Statement This research proposal is focused on modelling of SCADA networks by implementing the DBSy modelling method, and risk assessment. 2 Problem Statement SCADA and ICS are the Critical Infrastructures, Which Operates a number of significant resources including fuel, energy, water, airports, and biotech and run many day-day utilities