Designing cybersecurity into the design of systems is much more effective than IT security alone.
The Idaho National Laboratory pioneered the development of cyber-informed engineering concepts and is working with CESER to educate others in industry, academia, and government on how to apply these concepts to real-world challenges. In this article, we’ll outline some of the basic principles, and illustrate how they’re being put into practice through a fictionalized account of a municipal water utility.
For example, let’s say a municipal water utility is considering a new cloud-based service for monitoring and controlling a critical, remote pump station. Cloud technology would make operations far more efficient and would save significant labor. In a cyber-informed review of the design, the members of the design team were asked to imagine the worst consequences of an attack.
Members of the utility’s design team reviewed the features of the water pumps that an attacker might be able to access through the cloud-based service. They identified that the worst consequence would result from an attacker remotely starting and stopping pumps too quickly. They determined that installing a $50 analog time-delay relay in the controller of the pump would slow the remote start and stop commands, which would prevent an attacker who gained remote access from harming the system.
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